Chamoli Disaster: One More Body Recovered From Tapovan Tunnel, Toll Rises to 81
The glacier burst in February led to a massive loss of life with over a hundred still missing.
The damaged Rishiganga Power Project. Photo: PTI
Government8 hours ago
Gopeshwar:Â More than two months after a glacier burst in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, one more body was recovered from the Tapovan tunnel on Saturday, taking the death toll in the tragedy to 81.
The rescue teams recovered the body from a tunnel at the National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC) Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project in the morning, the Chamoli district disaster control room said.
Sumna, where the avalanche occurred on Friday, is located near the confluence of the Girthigad and Kiogad, two streams that originate from the Dhauli Ganga river, which witnessed a calamitous avalanche in February, killing 80 people and leaving 126 missing. Seven people injured in the incident are undergoing treatment. Five of them are receiving treatment at Joshimath Army Hospital.
The avalanche hit Sumna on Friday last week after which BRO workers engaged in a project there went missing.
GOPESHWAR: The search operation for workers who went missing after the avalanche in Sumna near the India-China border in Chamoli district continued on Tuesday while all 15 bodies recovered from the site are of BRO workers from Jharkhand. After a post mortem of the bodies in Joshimath, they were sent to Shrinagar Garhwal Hospital for embalming by the district administration.
All the bodies recovered so far have been identified, Chamoli district magistrate Swati S Bhadauria said.
They were all BRO workers from Jharkhand, she said.