166 NOW KILLED AT LEH.TOLL INCREASING

The toll of the dead at leh has now risen to 166 with 400 missing

23 foreigners lost their lives in the flash flood

Three french,one Italian and person from Spandrid were killed

Three French citizens — Augavelis Henri, Hellot Jacques and Daniel Hauri, an Italian identified as Riccardo Titton and Maromas Maria Lousdes from Spain have been declared dead, they said.

Sixteen of those killed are from Nepal, namely Nema Zangmo, Tsering Neklal, Bakta Bahadur, Kama Lama, Ajay Raina, Khunchok Gelak, Lakpa Gyalmo, Shekhar, Mahurdin Ansari, Manee Patel, Ramesh Patel, Narai Badur Sume, Santosh Kumar, Nel Badur, Saryanareyan Chaudhary and Anil Chaudhary, they said.

Two other victims were Tibetans. They were identified as Pasang Tsering and Tsering Yangkyid, the sources said.

LEH-SRINAGAR ROAD-- CLOSED

LEH-MANALI ROAD -- CLOSED

The flight operations are on a full swing

The list of those who have died is put on-

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