Rains, landslides disrupt Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage

August 16th, 2009 SILIGURI - Three of a family were among seven people killed in landslides triggered by heavy rains in the West Bengal hills Sunday. More casualties are feared, an official said.

August 16th, 2009 SILIGURI - Three of a family and two others died following landslides in the hilly Kurseong sub-division of Darjeeling district in West Bengal Sunday. More casualties are feared, an official said.

August 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW, India —Landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 43 people in three remote villages in northern India, a police official said. Twenty bodies were pulled from the debris Sunday after the landslide buried the villages in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand state a day earlier, said S.M.

August 9th, 2009 Indian official says 43 people killed in landslideLUCKNOW, India —Landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 43 people in three remote villages in northern India, a police official said Sunday. Twenty bodies were pulled from the debris after the landslide Saturday buried the villages in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand state, said S.M.

July 31st, 2009 Police: Landslides kill 10 people in BangladeshDHAKA, Bangladesh — Landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains killed 10 people in southeastern Bangladesh on Friday, authorities said. The pre-dawn deaths occurred in Bandarban district, a mountainous region 155 miles (248 kilometers) southeast of the capital, the area's police chief Quamrul Ahsan said.

July 31st, 2009 KATHMANDU - At least nine people were killed and four injured after landslides hit three districts in western Nepal, officials said Friday. The landslides followed heavy monsoonal rains since Thursday night.

July 31st, 2009 Report: Landslides kill 10 people in BangladeshDHAKA, Bangladesh — A domestic news agency says landslides caused by heavy rains have killed 10 people in southeastern Bangladesh. The United News of Bangladesh reports the deaths occurred early Friday in Bandarban district 155 miles (248 kilometers) southeast of the capital Dhaka.

July 28th, 2009 Heavy monsoon rains leave 22 dead in NepalKATMANDU, Nepal — Flooding and landslides brought on by two days of heavy monsoon rains in Nepal have left 22 people dead and several more missing, officials said Tuesday. Home Ministry official Iswor Regmi said the death toll from the rains that began over the weekend could rise as reports pour in from remote villages, some of them several days' walk from the nearest town or telephone.

July 6th, 2009 22 die in Vietnam landslides, floodsHANOI, Vietnam — The government says the death toll from landslides and floods in Vietnam's mountainous north has risen to 22. Thirteen other people are still missing after the heavy rains that struck on Friday night.

June 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - "No medical test is mandatory... private tour operators are not as strict as government," said the private tour operator in the capital that is in the news for its callous treatment of its clients and leaving them in the lurch during the pilgrimage to Mt.

June 11th, 2009 KATHMANDU - As details start to come in about the casualties among Indians who went on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and the Mansarovar lake, the picture emerges of appalling ignorance about the weather conditions in Tibet and the hardship the land journey entails. "We were shocked to see an 83-year-old woman going on her own," said a pilgrim who identified himself as Ravi and who was part of a group of people from south India that returned to Kathmandu from the gruelling journey this week with one casualty -- the 83-year-old woman who was not escorted by any relatives or friends.

June 11th, 2009 KATHMANDU - With the death of six Indian pilgrims during the gruelling overland pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and the Mansarovar lake in Tibet, Nepal's concerned tourism board Wednesday issued a travel advisory for travellers, asking them to get acclimatised first. "(Some travellers) face difficulties due to their age, health and (lack of)acclimatisation," the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) said in a press statement Wednesday.

June 9th, 2009 KATHMANDU - At least 10 Indians were killed while attempting to undertake the pilgrimage to the Mount Kailash in Tibet and the nearby Mansarovar lake, venerated by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains alike. The deaths occurred due to high-altitude sickness as most of the pilgrims were above 60 years and came from cities in plains like Bangalore, Chennai and Lucknow, tourist agencies in Kathmandu said.

May 26th, 2009 SILIGURI - At least 10 people were killed and 23 injured following landslides Tuesday in West Bengal's hill district Darjeeling, police said. "At least 10 people died and 23 were injured in landslides across Darjeeling district.

April 27th, 2009 Landslides in southern China kill 11; 15 missingBEIJING — A local government spokesman says two landslides in southwestern China have killed 11 people. Fifteen others are missing.