As many as 53 stranded pilgrims from Sira, Chamarajanagar, Srirangam and Mysuru were rescued and taken to Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi. They are on their way to Bengaluru. Four have already reached Bengaluru by flight.
Another 180 people are yet to reach New Delhi with 130 of them expected to reach Haridwar on Sunday night.
Officials were unable to make contact with the rest till Sunday night. The four pilgrims who reached the city by flight are Chamarajanagar Municipal Councillor Gangesh Deekshit, his wife Vanaja Deekshit, Chamundeshwari temple chief priest Shashishekar Deekshit and Revanasiddaiah, a resident of Sira taluk. Shashishekar Deekshit said that they had planned a trip after hearing of the 2013 floods in Uttarakhand.
“But little did we know that we would witness landslips, roads being blocked and heavy rains,” he said.
