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Commercial flights, Nepal Army choppers deployed to evacuate stranded Indian Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims

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Press Trust of India Kathmandu
Last Updated : Jul 04 2018 | 1:15 PM IST

Nearly 100 Indian pilgrims were today evacuated, as authorities stepped up efforts to rescue those stranded in Nepal's mountainous region due to heavy rain while returning from the Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage in Tibet.

Five commercial flights and one Nepal Army chopper operated today, transporting 96 Indian stranded pilgrims from Simikot to Surkhet as the weather condition in Nepalgunj is bad. On the Hilsa-Simikot route, three Nepal Army choppers operated, the Indian Embassy said.

Around 250 of the over 1,500 Indian pilgrims stranded were evacuated safely from Hilsa till yesterday, the embassy had said yesterday.

While Hilsa is extremely infrastructure lean, Simikot has decent boarding, communication and medical facilities, it had

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First Published: Jul 04 2018 | 1:15 PM IST

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