Himachal rain fury: ‘Death better than this nightmare..’ Landslide victims share plight

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Disaster Management Authority has said. Promila, a local resident, recently lost everything when a room in a building she stayed in crumbled in a landslide, PTI has reported.

‘Death would have better than going through this nightmare with nowhere to go and no shoulder to cry on,’ she said. On 23 August, a landslide damaged a building near Indira Gandhi Medical College Hospital (IGMCH) where she use to stay with her ailing mother.

While narrating her plight to PTI, she said, “I live with my 75-year-old mother who is suffering from ovarian cancer and has been undergoing treatment since 2016. I also lost my job as a sales girl in a shop in Ram Nagar in the city market last week due to the recession as there were no customers." Further adding, she said, “I slept at IGMCH on Thursday night as there is no place to go." Promila said he does not have siblings or a father and is also separated from her husband.

“I am desperately looking for a job and am willing to even clean and sweep as I am in dire need of money for my mother's treatment," she says before adding, "My mother is all I have." Another victim whose room was adjacent to Promila told PTI, “We could not salvage our belongings and the only thing left is the clothes we were wearing while running out of the collapsed house." Suman who works as a domestic help said that she lost everything in the landslide and have no money to even pay her son's school fees. Furthermore, she said they have no shelter, no clothes and that even the books of her son studying in Class 5 were damaged in the landslide.

"Our plight is miserable but it did not attract the attention of the authorities as no casualty was reported in this landslide. What is the use of getting so many donations, if