Reports as of Saturday 7th August 2010 in the Indian media quote 132 deaths and 370 injured in Ladakh, and that a rescue operation for 600 missing people has been intensified.
A mudslide flowed across the Druk White Lotus School campus in Shey in the early hours of Friday and all 200 residential children were evacuated to Shey Palace on nearby high ground.
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