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Read more about Rescuers pull out 6 bodies from Tapovan tunnel; death toll rises to 51 on Business Standard. Rescue teams on Sunday recovered 13 more bodies, including the first ones to be pulled out from the sludge-choked Tapovan tunnel
The agencies involved in the Tapovan rescue work include the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, the National Disaster Response Force and the State Disaster Response Force
Scores were killed in Uttarakhand state when the deluge thought to have been triggered by a chunk of glacier sliding down a mountainside or a glacial lake breaching its banks swept down the Rishiganga valley in minutes, destroying roads, bridges and buildings.
Rescuers on Sunday pulled the first bodies from a blocked tunnel at a power complex in a northern Indian valley devastated by a flash flood a week ago, where 161 people remain missing.