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Kolkata:
A younker from Kolkata’s Jadavpur country remained missing successful Darjeeling for astir 10 days aft monolithic floods and implicit 110 landslides battered the northbound Bengal portion of West Bengal.
The 25-year-old young man, Himadri Purkait’s telephone was switched disconnected astir 2.20 americium connected October 5. A erstwhile pupil of Jadavpur University, helium was volunteering astatine a section homestay successful Sonada, a tiny hilly municipality 25km from Darjeeling town.
“We are not successful a authorities to talk, helium is inactive missing aft 10 days,” Priyabrata Purkait, elder member of Himadri told The Hindu connected Wednesday (October 15), 10 days aft his member went missing.
The proprietor of the Bagar Homestay successful Sonada wherever Himadri was working, said that they mislaid transportation with him astatine 2.20 americium connected October 5 erstwhile the flood was astatine its peak. “He was staying successful a structure extracurricular the main building of the homestay. When the flash flood started precocious successful the night, the stream started to travel done our property,” Abhishake Gurung, proprietor of the homestay said.
He added that determination were 9 guests and 2 drivers contiguous astatine the spot during the deluge who were rescued by Himadri and the spot owners together, aft which they mislaid interaction with Himadri.
“We are inactive searching for him. He is inactive a missing idiosyncratic connected our list,” Preeti Goyal, Darjeeling District Magistrate said connected October 15.
Mr Gurung added that helium joined the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to hunt for Himadri but they could not hint him adjacent aft days of hunt operations.
“There was a rainfall informing and we had asked him to enactment wrong the factual operation spot of the homestay, but helium did not judge the offer. He stayed backmost successful his tent,” Mr Gurung said.
The homestay proprietor said that Himadri’s member had visited the country aft the catastrophe successful hunt of his brother, but returned with nary answers.
Over 30 radical died successful the rains and landslides successful northbound Bengal which had implicit 261 mm rainfall successful the intermittent nighttime of October 4 and 5 crossed the districts of Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling.
