Kinnaur is one of the twelve administrative districts situated in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. Himachal Pradesh is one of the most popular hill states of India and Kinnaur is the second-largest district of the snow state.  

Kinnaur is over 600 kilometers away from the national capital Delhi. If covered via a flight, the distance between Kinnaur and Delhi is 359 kilometers. It takes around 15 hours to travel to Kinnaur from Delhi by road.

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Kinnaur district is divided into three administrative areas – Pooh, Kalpa, and Nichar (Bhabanagar). The administrative headquarters of the district is at Reckong Peo.

The district of Kinnaur is about 235 km from Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, located in the northeast corner of the state bordering Tibet to the east. It has three high mountains ranges, namely, Zanskar and Himalayas that enclose valleys of Satluj, Spiti, Baspa and their tributaries.

On Sunday, a video clip of a landslide in Sangla, in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh showing big boulders of rocks breaking off a mountain top and rolling down into the valley below, was released on social media.

The footage released by Doordarshan news and news agency ANI shows that several rocks and heavy debris rolls down into the valley below leading a bridge to collapse and several houses were quashed by heavy boulders. Watch the video here.

At least nine tourists were reportedly killed and three others were injured in multiple landslides that took place on Sunday in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district. The tourists were travelling in a tempo that was quashed by heavy boulders killing eight of 11 tourists, PTI reported.

Himachal Pradesh’s Chief secretary Anil Khachi confirmed the nine deaths along with damage to the Batseri bridge and a 200-meter highway patch.