Gangtok: Altogether 427 tourists were
evacuated from North Sikkim on Thursday, four days after they got
stranded in the district as torrential rain damaged road infrastructure,
an official said.
The district administration arranged vehicles
for all the 427 tourists to reach the state capital Gangtok, North
Sikkim Collector Raj Yadav said.
Besides government and Army
vehicles, private taxis were hired to first bring the stranded tourists
to Chungthang and from there all of them were taken to Gangtok by
state-owned buses, Mr Yadav told PTI over phone from Mangan.
All tourists were provided refreshments before being transported free of cost till Gangtok, he said.
Medical
facilities were made available to the stranded tourists, the North
Sikkim DC said, adding that the Travel Agents Association of Sikkim has
provided free food and lodging to all visitors at Lachen, while the
Army''s Gorkha Regiment and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police helped the
administration in the mission.
As many as 60 tourist vehicles had got stranded in between Lachen and
Zema 3 in North Sikkim four days ago due to torrential rains in the
region, hours after a cloudburst had occurred in the region.
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