Some areas in northeastern India are still not accessible after an earthquake on Sunday (18 / 9).
The roads in remote areas of Sikkim in the north near the border with Tibet broken or swept away by heavy rains.
One resident told the BBC that several people in his village were killed and they could not bring injured people to the nearest clinic or hospital.
In Gangtok, the state capital, thousands of people who are worried by the aftershocks evacuated to the field near the university and the local sports stadium.
Still in the northeast region, Indian troops reached the center of hydroelectric power. In this place at least 17 employees landslide buried, not long after the earthquake.
PP Baby, a spokesman for the Teesta Urha Limited, which operates a hydroelectric power company said the victims were killed falling of boulders.
Heavy equipment
Baby says his company has a staff of about 1,000 people.
"We tried to count the number of victims who lost, but it is not easy to do because some workers go home after the quake," Baby told the Associated Press.
Hydropower in the process of final settlement and Baby said the quake did not cause significant damage.
"The structure of the main dam and power plant was not damaged," he said.
The officials said that besides the army, the government also sent a rescue team equipped with heavy equipment to clear roads of landslides and rock blocking the road.
This earthquake killed at least 100 people in India, Nepal, and Tibet. The toll was expected to rise.
This disaster also caused damage to homes throughout the region including Bhutan.
The roads in remote areas of Sikkim in the north near the border with Tibet broken or swept away by heavy rains.
One resident told the BBC that several people in his village were killed and they could not bring injured people to the nearest clinic or hospital.
In Gangtok, the state capital, thousands of people who are worried by the aftershocks evacuated to the field near the university and the local sports stadium.
Still in the northeast region, Indian troops reached the center of hydroelectric power. In this place at least 17 employees landslide buried, not long after the earthquake.
PP Baby, a spokesman for the Teesta Urha Limited, which operates a hydroelectric power company said the victims were killed falling of boulders.
Heavy equipment
Baby says his company has a staff of about 1,000 people.
"We tried to count the number of victims who lost, but it is not easy to do because some workers go home after the quake," Baby told the Associated Press.
Hydropower in the process of final settlement and Baby said the quake did not cause significant damage.
"The structure of the main dam and power plant was not damaged," he said.
The officials said that besides the army, the government also sent a rescue team equipped with heavy equipment to clear roads of landslides and rock blocking the road.
This earthquake killed at least 100 people in India, Nepal, and Tibet. The toll was expected to rise.
This disaster also caused damage to homes throughout the region including Bhutan.
