Uttarakhand speaker pegs death toll at 10,000

Two weeks after flashfloods and landslides devastated Uttarakhand, there was no clarity on the death toll with state Assembly Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.

July 01, 2013 / 08:58 IST

Two weeks after flashfloods and landslides devastated Uttarakhand, there was no clarity on the death toll with state Assembly Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal claiming today that it may cross 10,000 while Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde pegged it at 900.

Kunjwal claimed in Almora that the death toll can cross 10,000, "Earlier when I returned from a tour of Garhwal region I believed the casualty figure could be 4,000 to 5,000".

first published: Jun 30, 2013 10:25 am

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