Nearly 600 people have been killed in the Uttarakhand flood devastation, chief minister Vijay Bahuguna has said, while ActionAid warned of thousands of possible deaths. Four days after a cloudburst almost destroyed Kedarnath, home to one of India's most revered shrines, Bahuguna told CNN-IBN news channel that 556 bodies had been found even as the military and security forces rescued a large number of those stranded in the hills. The government has so far admitted to only about 200 deaths. "(A total of) 556 bodies have been recovered and there are reports more could be buried under the debris," the chief minister said. "This kind of disaster has never happened in the Himalayan history." He said it would "take a long time to rebuild Uttarakhand" and that no pilgrimage to Kedarnath would be possible for at least the next two years. Debabrat Patra, ActionAid India's regional manager for Uttar Pradeshand Uttarakhand, said the situation in the hill state was "catastrophic". "Our partners in the region have reported that nearly 5,000 people are still missing in Kedarnath, presumed dead," he said, in a grim forecast of what could turn out to be one of India's worst natural disasters. Uttarakhand saw over 60 hours of continuous and heavy rains coupled with few incidents of cloudbursts at various locations June 14 to 17, which led to the flooding of the state's main rivers: Alaknanda and Bhagirathi....
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