The region was hit with a cloudburst - an extreme amount of rainfall within a certain amount of time - which caused widespread flooding and landslides.
At least 33 people have died and many others are trapped after monsoon rain triggered floods and landslides in India's Himalayan region.
Nine people were killed on Sunday night in the mountainous Himachal Pradesh state's Solan district following a cloudburst. Nine more bodies were then pulled out from under mud and debris after two landslides near a Hindu temple in Shimla, the state's capital, the chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said on X .Authorities warned the number of those killed could still rise as rescuers continue to work to reach those trapped and clear the debris.
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