Gumla: Two people died and one was injured when their bike had a head-on collision with a bauxite-laden truck in Ghaghra block of Gumla on Friday nigh.
Gumla: Soon after the Chamoli administration released the photographs of those found dead in the glacier burst, the family of Vicky Oraon (30) identified his body, making it the state’s first confirmed casualty in the mishap. Residents of Bathet village in Lohardaga district on Wednesday evening said Vicky was one of the nine from the district who went missing in Chamoli on February 7.
Vicky’s corpse was identified by his father Ramdas Oraon and brother Vikas from a photograph shared through the helpline number set up by the Chamoli administration. The photograph was received by Shashi Oraon, a native of Bathet and the elder brother of Ravindra Oraon (23), who is among the missing. “Vicky’s brother and father identified him from a set of photographs. My brother is still missing,” Shashi told TOI over phone.
State disaster management department secretary Amitabh Kaushal confirmed that he had receiving information about the nine and they have activated official channels to trace them.
RANCHI: Fifteen migrant workers from Jharkhand – nine from Bathet village in Lohardaga district and six workers from Ramgarh’s Gola block are missing since the glacier break and subsequent flood in Chamoli district in Uttrakhand on Sunday, government officials in Jharkhand said on Monday. The state has also set up a control room and a helpline number for stranded citizens of Jharkhand.
Lohardaga deputy commissioner Dilip Kumar Toppo said the nine missing labourers identified as Jyotish Bakhla, Majnu Bakhla, Ubarnush Bakhla, Sunil Bakhla, Nemhans Bakhla, Ravindra Oraon, Deepak Kujur, Vikky Bhagat, and Prem Oraon were engaged in work at NTPC’s 520-MW Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project on the Dhauliganga river in the Himalayan state. Notably, more than 170 are said to be missing and about a dozen de