Uttarakhand: The rescue teams in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on Sunday recovered the body of the eighth worker missing in the Mana (Chamoli) avalanche incident, during the ongoing search operation, officials said.
Earlier officials from the rescue teams said that three more bodies were found as rescue teams continued searching for the last missing worker which increased the death toll to eight in the incident.
“All 54 persons have now been rescued or recovered. This marks the culmination of the Mana Village Rescue Operation,” said Lt Col Manish Shrivastava, PRO (Defence), Dehradun.
According to officials, the search operation resumed on Sunday morning to locate four missing workers believed to be trapped under the snow after an avalanche hit a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) project site in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on February 28.
With this, the death toll has risen to eight. Four workers had died on Saturday.
The bodies of the BRO workers retrieved from the avalanche site were airlifted today and brought to the Joshimath military hospital, officials said.
A total of 54 workers were buried when the avalanche struck on the morning of February 28. Army, ITBP, Air Force, NDRF, and SDRF personnel conducted rescue operations over the past two days.
The SDRF team continued searching the site using victim-locating and thermal imaging cameras.
Earlier today, a Drone-Based Intelligent Buried Object Detection System was brought to Joshimath and deployed at the avalanche site in Mana to assist in the search operation.