Uttarakhand avalanche: Search teams have rescued 14 more labourers, while eight remain trapped under an avalanche in the high-altitude village of Mana in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, citing officials on Saturday.
A total of 55 Border Roads Organisation workers were trapped under the avalanche on Friday. However, by Friday night, 33 of them were rescued, while 14 more were brought out from the avalanche on Saturday morning.
Correcting the information shared earlier, Uttarakhand’s Disaster Management Secretary Vinod Kumar Suman told news agency PTI it was found out that two of the 57 labourers feared trapped in the avalanche at the BRO camp were on leave and the actual number of workers trapped was 55.
According to a list released by the Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority, the trapped labourers were from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, among other states. The list has 10 labourers’ names, without mentioning the states they belong to.
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