Uttarakhand Glacier Burst: Three Bodies Recovered From Tunnel
Uttarakhand Glacier Burst: Three bodies recovered from the tunnel during the rescue operation, 163 missing.
Rescue operations are underway to reach 34 persons stranded in the tunnel of NTPC’s under-construction hydro project at Uttarakhand Glacier Burst Tapovan.
Due to the backflow of debris, the team had to struggle hard to remove it. DGP Ashok Kumar said that two bodies have been recovered from the side of the main tunnel.
They reported that the teams have reached 130 meters and are trying to speed up the process to reach the next tunnel soon. After this, another corpse has been recovered.
The dead bodies of Uttarakhand Police, SDRF, and NDRF have been recovered. A total of 41 bodies have been found so far, while 163 are missing.
At the same time, DM Swati Singh Bhadauria and SP Yashwant Singh are also on the spot and are taking stock of relief and rescue operations.
On the other hand, cases of 29 missing people have been registered so far at Joshimath Police Station. DNA samples of 55 family members have been taken to aid identification.
Two bodies have been recovered by drilling in the tunnel of NTPC’s 520 MW Tapovan Vishnugad project in the Tapovan area of Chamoli district devastated by the floods of the Rishiganga.
He has been identified as Alam Singh son Sundar Singh resident Lwll Gullar Narendranagar, Tehri Uttarakhand, and Anil son Bhagtu resident Dadwali Samalta Kalsi as Dehradun Uttarakhand.
The NDRF team engaged in rescue inside the tunnel recovered the first body at 4:45 am and the second at 5:50 am from the intake edit tunnel of the project.
The rescue operation has been going on in this tunnel since February 7. The two persons whose bodies have been recovered from the tunnel.
He was expected to be buried under the debris since the day of his incident. The rescue team is searching for missing persons inside the tunnel with the help of drone cameras.
Chamoli District Magistrate Swati S Bhadauria and Police Captain Yashwant Singh Chauhan went inside the tunnel to take stock of the rescue operations.
District Magistrate Swati S Bhadoria told that the rescue work inside the tunnel is going on a war footing. Other teams including NDRF are engaged in the rescue.
He said that the possibility of surviving the trapped people inside the tunnel cannot be ruled out.
If a living person is found inside the tunnel, a helicopter has also been deployed in the temporary helipad built here for immediate treatment.
Medical teams have also been deployed at the scene. So that if any injured is found, it can be given first aid here.
