Around 150 Indian tourists stranded in Mansarovar, Tibet

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

As many as 150 Indian pilgrims have been stranded for the last five hours without food and water in a nondescript region. A majority of them were senior citizens of the country.

The pilgrims were returning home when all of a sudden they were stranded somewhere between Saga and Kerung towns, as described by one of the several pilgrims who were stuck here, named Venkatasubramaniam.

Six buses and a few SUVs were stuck on the road.

They were not capable of moving back or forward to as the road then washed away in the floods, he then went on to mention.

He also said that it was pitch dark when they were stranded.

Some workers had started rebuilding the road but then it was not yet over, he added. He then said that there was on ongoing construction of a bridge. And therefore, traffic was moving through an old that got washed away as a consequence of this construction.

He explained that the Indian tourists were not even able to get in touch with the Indian embassy in China on account of poor network connectivity.

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