Tragic end: Bodies of 4 more workers recovered from avalanche site Mana rescue ends
The final body found among the missing workers has been recovered. Lt Col Manish Shrivastava from the Defence Public Relations Officer described Recovery as the final conclusion of the Mana Village Rescue mission.
On Sunday military personnel obtained the final four bodies of workers from the Avalanche site at Border Roads Organisation (BRO) camp in Chamoli which increased the total death count to eight after a 60-hour rescue attempt. Doctors from the Indian Army declared that they transferred 46 rescued workers to the military hospital in Jyotirmath on Saturday. AIIMS in Rishikesh received two of the survivors who had been transported from the site of the avalanche at Border Roads Organisation (BRO) camp in Chamoli. According to Lt Col DS Maldhya there are three workers in critical condition among the rescued staff. The recovery team has retrieved the body of the very last missing worker. The recovery concludes the ongoing Mana Village Rescue operation according to Defence Public Relations Officer (PRO) Lt Col Manish Shrivastava.
Chamoli District Magistrate Sandeep Tiwari disclosed that 46 laborers survived the avalanche rescue while eight perished due to the incident. Two groups of four dead bodies were recovered from the site during Saturday and Sunday.
The sudden avalanche trapped the 54 workers who were stationed at a BRO camp between Mana and Badrinath on Friday morning. There was a belief that 55 workers remained trapped in the avalanche but later it became clear that only 54 were inside as one labourer had used unauthorized leave before reaching home. The rescue operation conducted more than 200 workers from disaster management authority, ITBP, BRO, NDRF, SDRF, IAF, district administration, health department and fire brigade. The Indian town Mana exists as the border region between the country and Tibet at an elevation of 3,200 meters and three kilometers northeast of Badrinath temple.
A 43-year-old worker named Arvind Kumar Singh from Clement Town Dehradun turned out to be the final casualty found dead. Authorities identified three more males retrieved from the reservoir on Sunday as Anil Kumar (21) from Rudrapur Uttarakhand and Ashok (28) from Fatehpur Uttar Pradesh and Harmesh from Una in Himachal Pradesh according to officials. Health centre personnel are doing post-mortem examinations on the bodies of deceased workers since their recovery through helicopter transport at Jyotirmath. The rescue operation accelerated with helicopters and sniffer dogs and thermal imaging technology as per officials. Operation rescued victims during 60 hours of continual difficult conditions which disrupted the operation throughout the initial two days. The weather conditions remained mainly clear during Sunday.
The avalanche site was monitored by Lt Gen Anindya Sengupta GOC-in C Central Command, together with Lt Gen D G Mishra GOC of Uttar Bharat. At an earlier stage today Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami appeared at the Uttarakhand State Emergency Operation Centre for updates regarding the rescue efforts.
