A combined team of Indian Army, Air Force and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) assisted by a helicopter are engaged in rescue operations, it said.
Of the six people, including a porter, who were reported missing on Friday, after getting caught in an avalanche near Mount Trishul in Uttarakhand's Bageshwar district, the bodies of four have been retrieved. Among the dead are three Navvy officers and a sailor.
Mortal remains of four of the five Indian Navy personnel, who had gone missing during a mountaineering expedition to Mount Trishul in Uttarakhand, were retrieved on Saturday
Three Indian Navy officers and a sailor were killed in an avalanche during a mountaineering expedition to Mount Trishul in Uttarakhand, the Defence Ministry said today.
A rescue team from Uttarkashi-based Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) led by its principal Colonel Amit Bisht has left for the avalanche-hit area in search of the missing, a statement from NIM, quoting Col Bisht, said.