kullu even after six days of finding the wreckage of the illfated pepsu roadways transport corporation prtc bus which was swept away by a flooded beas river near manali with at least 11 passengers on board is still to be pulled out as the water level is still high the bus was swept away by the flooded river at kalath near manali on the intervening night of july 8 and july 9 buried in the middle of the river the bus was found by a team of the local officials and a team of the national disaster response force ndrf on july 22 and thereafter efforts were made to pull out the wreckage but without success an official said that the bus wreckage was buried in the middle of the river and that it was difficult to reach there or send earthdigging machinery when contacted manali sdm raman sharma said that high water level was making it difficult to pull out the bus wreckage the water level of beas is still high making it difficult to pull out the bus wreckage once the water level goes down we would renew our efforts said sharma the 11 passengers who belonged to uttar pradesh were travelling in a group and had boarded the prtc bus in chandigarh on july 8 the bus had started off from chandigarh for manali on the afternoon of july 8 meanwhile the situation at malana dam is still critical as the water continued to overflow even on thursday a district administration official said that efforts were on to repair the gantry crane and open the jammed flood gates the flood gates had got jammed on july 24 due to increasing silt level in the water a team of the ndrf is helping experts reach the gantry crane which is used for opening and closing the floodgates and repair it