Last Updated: Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 16:22
Siliguri: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that around 15 people from the state are feared killed in the Sunday quake that hit the Teesta Urja project in Sikkim's worst-affected North district which remained inaccessible.
"14 or 15 persons from West Bengal are feared killed in Sunday's quake in the Teesta Urja project," Banerjee told reporters here.
During her visit to quake-hit areas of north Bengal and Sikkim, she held a meeting with the Darjeeling district magistrate, other district officials and north Bengal Development Minister Gautam Deb, instructing them to make necessary arrangements to rescue injured people and tourists from West Bengal.
"We have sought helicopters from the Teesta Urja project officials or the Central Disaster Management Department to bring back anybody found there," she said.
The chief minister said that the state government on its own had arranged for the return of some tourists from West Bengal stranded in Sikkim.
Source: http://zeenews.india.com/news/west-bengal/15-from-bengal-feared-killed-in-sikkim-mamata_732754.html
Siliguri: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that around 15 people from the state are feared killed in the Sunday quake that hit the Teesta Urja project in Sikkim's worst-affected North district which remained inaccessible.
"14 or 15 persons from West Bengal are feared killed in Sunday's quake in the Teesta Urja project," Banerjee told reporters here.
During her visit to quake-hit areas of north Bengal and Sikkim, she held a meeting with the Darjeeling district magistrate, other district officials and north Bengal Development Minister Gautam Deb, instructing them to make necessary arrangements to rescue injured people and tourists from West Bengal.
"We have sought helicopters from the Teesta Urja project officials or the Central Disaster Management Department to bring back anybody found there," she said.
The chief minister said that the state government on its own had arranged for the return of some tourists from West Bengal stranded in Sikkim.
Source: http://zeenews.india.com/news/west-bengal/15-from-bengal-feared-killed-in-sikkim-mamata_732754.html