Around 150 labourers engaged in constructing tunnels for the Indian Railways near the Sikkim-West Bengal border got a new life on that fateful Wednesday morning as they were rescued minutes before the raging Teesta waters washed away their camp and almost all of their belongings.
Officers of a private construction company, for which the labourers work, rushed to their colony with vehicles just in time after learning about the impending calamity and saved the sleeping workers from certain death.
The gushing water of the Teesta destroyed the camp near Zero Mile area, around 2 km from Rambi Bazar in West Bengal’s Kalimpong district, with only the roofs of some of their cottages visible now as the rest went under several feet of slush.
