Emergency workers from the national and state disaster response forces are playing a critical role in relief and rescue operations across north India, where incessant rainfall in the last three days has led to chaos, claiming at least 19 lives. A recent video from Himachal Pradesh, where the Chief Minister has appealed to people to stay indoors for the next 24 hours, showed NDRF men zip-lining across a raging river to rescue stranded people.
