It's a race against time as weather, hunger threaten thousands of lives

It's now a grim race against time. With the next round of heavy rains expected on Monday in the hills of Uttarakhand, rescuers have just Saturday and Sunday to carry out a mammoth evacuation of thousands stranded in Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri, many of them old or ill, and several without food or shelter. The official death toll has reached 550.

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