SHIMLA: The two staff members, including a manager of the private operator of the Rs 28 Crore Modern Slaughter House were killed  after the entire complex was wiped out  by  massive flash flood  triggered in nallah in which 3 vacated  houses collapsed after couple of trees fell on them.

The diseased have been identified as staff members of the private operator of the Slaughter House, Shimla Municipal Corporation had leased it out to the Slaughter House to private operator on Balvinder Singh Machhiwala.  

The victims were alerted, but they could not imagine the magnitude of the flood. They came out for a  while from the Complex.

But one of them went inside to get his  baggage. After some time, other one also  followed him inside to call him, when suddenly the flash flood  flowed from upstream in a lightning speed,  wiped out the entire Slaughter House Complex out of existence. 

Apart from the death of two staffers, dozens of lambs were also washed away in the flood which  were to be marketed tomorrow.   

There was no trace of the victims so far, as the rescue team reached the spot after 30 minutes. 

The debris of three houses,  which were vacated beforehand after being declared unsafe, along with trees, snowballed into the massive flashflood that wiped out the Slaughter House that entered the  bridge on the Shimla Bypass road downstream near Darni Ka Bagicha.  

The onlooker captured the tragic incident live in a video that went viral on social media.  

The stakeholders had raised issue of the safety of the Slaughter House as it was built right in the steep catchment of the Nallah that come from Jhakhoo hills flowing under the Bridge of the Cart Road near the HP Tourism Lift. 

Shimla Municipal corporation had spent Rs 28 Crore on the Slaughter House which now has been reduced to rubble.