A dog’s frantic barking in the middle of the night saved the lives of 67 people in a Himalayan village before a massive landslide swept away their homes.
Residents of Siyathi village in Mandi district, in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, said their 5-month-old dog began barking around 1am on 30 June, just as heavy rains triggered a slope collapse that destroyed at least a dozen houses.
“I woke up from the barking,” a resident named Narendra told NDTV. “As I went to him, I saw a big crack in the wall of the house, and water had started to enter. I ran downstairs with the dog and woke everyone up.”
He ran door to door, alerting villagers. Within minutes, their houses were swallowed by mud and debris. The monsoon landslide completely levelled the area with just a few houses left standing.
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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