11 Punjab Roadways bus passengers missing; 3 bodies found in Shimla.

SHIMLA: Police stated on Sunday that 11 people from a Punjab State Transport Corporation bus that was washed away by a swollen Beas river in Manali on July 10 had not yet been located.

The passengers boarded the Pepsi Roadways Transport Corporation (PRTC) bus in Chandigarh on July 9; they were all from Uttar Pradesh. On Saturday at Manali, the bus’s wreckage was discovered in the middle of the Beas river.

In the meantime, on Sunday, bodies of three people—an elderly couple and their grandson—who were washed away in a flash flood in the Laila rivulet at a village in Rohru, along with their roadside eatery, were found in the Pabbar river in the Shimla region of Himachal Pradesh.

Police have located the bodies that were washed away on Saturday, according to Shimla Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Kumar Gandhi, who spoke to PTI.

The dhaba in the area was once run by Roshan Lal and his wife Bhaga Devi, and their grandson Kartik had just visited them when the tragedy occurred, according to the officials.

The bus wreckage from the Punjab Road Transport Corporation was discovered on Saturday in Manali 300 metres below the green tax barrier of the Allo (potato) land in the middle of the Beas river, and a search is currently underway for the 11 passengers, according to the police.

The bus was believed to have had 11 missing people on board when it was carried away, all of whom were from Uttar Pradesh. A search is currently underway to locate the missing people, Kullu Superintendent of Police Sakshi Verma informed PTI.

Due to the strong river current, the bus could not be removed. The bus that left Sector 34 in Chandigarh on July 9 for Manali and was lost in floods on July 10 close to Manali had been identified by PRTC authorities.

Following floods in the Kullu and Mandi districts, a number of films showing buses, lorries, and other light vehicles submerged in the Beas River as well as floodwaters eroding homes, businesses, and parking lots on the banks went viral.

According to Gandhi, the current monsoon season has so far resulted in 88 houses, 47 vehicles, and 8 animal barns being damaged in the Shimla area, 25 people having killed, 26 having been injured, and 4 still being missing.