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Uttarakhand: The rescue teams in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on Sunday recovered three more bodies and increases the toll of recovered persons to seven and continues searches for one worker who is missing after the avalanche hit the site of a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) project in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Friday.
Bodies of BRO workers retrieved from the avalanche site airlifted today and brought to Joshimath military hospital
There were 54 workers at the site when the avalanche struck early on the morning of February 28.
Personnel of the Army, ITBP, Air Force, NDRF, SDRF are all participating in the rescue operations that have been going on for the past two days.
In Dehradun, PRO Defence Lt Colonel Manish Shrivastava told ANI, “…Three bodies were recovered today and brought to Mana and now sent to Joshimath… We hope we will rescue the remaining one soon.”
SDRF team searched the site with victim locating and thermal image cameras to search for the remaining workers. Earlier today, a Drone-Based Intelligent Buried Object Detection System was brought to Joshimath from where it reached the avalanche site in Mana to assist in the search operations.
The AIIMS Rishikesh official said “Five people were scheduled to be brought here but later we came to know that four would be brought here….Other patients are being examined at the base hospital.”
“A total of 54 (BRO workers) were missing, 50 have been rescued, and four people have lost their lives. Four people are still missing, and a search and rescue operation is going on, and we hope that we will find them soon.”
