Chamoli avalanche: Last missing worker’s body recovered after 2 days of extensive efforts; death toll reaches 8 | India News

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NEW DELHI: The Army on Sunday afternoon recovered the body of the eighth missing employee within the Mana (Chamoli) avalanche incident in the course of the ongoing search operation. Earlier that day, rescue groups discovered three extra our bodies whilest trying to find the final missing employee.
Lt col Manish Shrivastava, PRO (defence), Dehradun, confirmed, “All 54 persons have now been rescued or recovered. This marks the culmination of the Mana Village Rescue Operation.”
Officials reported that the search operation resumed on Sunday morning to search out 4 staff believed to be trapped beneath snow after an avalanche struck a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) mission web site in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on February 28.
The death toll reached eight, together with 4 staff who died on Saturday.
The recovered our bodies have been airlifted to the Joshimath navy hospital. The avalanche on February 28 morning had buried 54 staff. Rescue operations have been performed by Army, ITBP, Air Force, NDRF, and SDRF personnel over two days.
SDRF groups utilised victim-locating and thermal imaging cameras of their search efforts. A Drone-Based Intelligent Buried Object Detection System was deployed on the avalanche web site in Mana to help operations.
AIIMS Rishikesh PRO Sandeep Singh mentioned, (*2*)
“Five patients were expected to be brought here, but we later learned that four would be arriving. Other injured workers are being treated at the base hospital,” the AIIMS official added.
Uttarakhand state catastrophe administration secretary Vinod Kumar Suman mentioned that beneficial climate aided rescue efforts.
On Saturday, Lt gen Anindya Sengupta, GOC-in-C, central command, and Lt gen DG Misra, GOC, Uttar Bharat Area, inspected the location. Lt gen Sengupta detailed the deployment of specialised reconnaissance radars, UAVs, quadcopters, and avalanche rescue canines to find survivors, with helicopters constantly transporting gear and evacuating the injured.