Three days of heavy rain led to snapping of several key road links. They have been rescued and are being moved to safety, the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister said.

Around 30 to 40 people, including Manju Warrier, filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan and the crew of a film they were shooting for were stuck in the hill state’s Chattru. Around 200 people were stuck in the flood-affected area.

“They were taken out of the area a short while ago and sent in vehicles safely. They were warned earlier. But perhaps they didn’t pay attention to the request and insisted (on staying back),” Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur told reporters.

The actress managed to call her brother on Monday night at around 9 pm through a satellite phone as telephone lines were not working.

She said they were running out of food and other essentials which were likely to last just another day, according to the brother Madhu Warrier.

The brother then reached out to junior foreign minister V Muraleedharan who is from Kerala. “The minister has assured me of all help and said he is in touch with the Himachal Chief Minister,” Madhu Warrier said.

“Spoke to Shri @jairamthakurbjp ji, Hon’ble CM of Himachal Pradesh on the Malayalam film crew stuck in Chatru. Mandi district administration is in touch with the stranded crew members. Evacuation efforts are on to bring them back to Manali by today evening,” Mr Muraleedharan tweeted.

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The building housing a small eatery and a small guest house collapsed following heavy rains on Sunday afternoon when 30 Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) of Assam Rifles, all from the nearby Dagshai cantonment, were eating lunch there.

Nearly 15 civilians, including the eatery’s staff, were also present inside the building on Nahan-Kumarhati Road near Solan, some 55km away from Chandigarh.

The dead now includes six soldiers of the Indian Army and the wife of the building’s owner, according to officials. The dead JCOs have been identified as Raj Kishore, Balwinder Singh, Vinod, Ajit Kumar, Pardeep Chand and Yogesh and the woman as Archana Devi.

Nearly 12 more people, including seven soldiers, were still feared trapped in the building. Twenty-seven people, including 17 soldiers and 10 civilians, have been rescued from the debris.

AS Per Hindustan times National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) official Ajay Verma, who is involved in the rescue operations, said the bodies retrieved from the debris were badly crushed. “We are praying for some life in the debris,” Verma said.

As a team of the army and NDRF staff continued to search for survivors beneath the debris, inconsolable cries of the family members of those stuck inside could be heard as a body was pulled out at about 3am on Monday.

This building was constructed in 2009 and a floor was added to it recently. An FIR (first information report) against the owner has already been lodged.

Chief minister Jairam Thakur has already ordered a probe into the incident and is likely to visit the site later in the day.

First, the fourth floor collapsed. After some time, the entire structure came down,” said an eyewitness.

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