Highlights Of the 430 workers, 384 have returned to the ITBP and Army camps in the area so far Eight are dead, seven injured have been rescued while 31 are missing The injured were rescued in helicopters and flown to the Army hospital in Joshimath Gopeshwar: It has been more than 12 hours after an avalanche has hit the areas north of Joshimath in Uttarakhand, eight bodies have been recovered, an unspecified number of persons are still missing while the Indian Army has, so far, rescued 384 people and six of them are critical. Eight Border Roads Organisation (BRO) workers were killed, seven injured and 31 went missing in an avalanche near the Indo-China border in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, officials said on Saturday (April 24).