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Rescue and relief operation underway after a glacier broke off in the Sumna area of Niti Valley near Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district.
The death toll in an avalanche near the Indo-China border in Uttarakhand s Chamoli district rose to 11 on Sunday, officials said here. Ten bodies were recovered till Saturday. One more body was recovered on Sunday and a rescue operation is underway, the district disaster management office here said.
Chamoli District Magistrate Swati S Bhadauriya and Superintendent of Police Yashwant Singh have been at the spot since Saturday to monitor the rescue operations.
Uttarakhand police chief Ashok Kumar said a total of 430 BRO workers were at the road construction site when the avalanche occurred on Friday.
A worker in Uttarakhand is pulled out of a narrow tunnel by the personnel of Indo Tibetan Border Police or ITBP, who have been pressed into the rescue operation after a glacier break and subsequent flash flood in the state's Chamoli district, a mobile video showed.