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KULU Thursday (AFP) Around 35 people were killed and 22 injured when a flash flood swept through a power project construction camp in the popular northern Indian resort district of Kulu, officials said.

Earlier officials had put the death toll at more than 100 but as rescue work progressed, officials gave an updated new death toll. "In all 35 persons have died, and so far 19 bodies have been recoved," A.K. Puri Director General Police Himachal Pradesh said late Wednesday. "The rescue operations will start again tomorrow (Thursday) morning."

Puri said around 450 persons were involved in the massive rescue operations.

Vir Bhadra Singh, the chief minister of the mountaineous Himachal Pradesh state where Kulu is situated, told journalists that the downpour caused by a cloud burst, led to havoc and widespread death in the remote region.

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