Uttarakhand disaster: Rescue team recovers 61 dead bodies till now

It`s nearing two weeks since the ill-fated Uttarakhand glacier burst took place. As the days are passing by the chances of locating life under the debris at Tapovan tunnel or other places is getting bleak. Rescuers have so far recovered 61 bodies from Uttarakhand’s flash flood-hit Chamoli district even as 143 people remain missing in the aftermath of the worst natural disaster in the state in years.

District magistrate Swati Bhadauria said 34 of the bodies have been identified. “...Fourteen [of the bodies] have been recovered from the 1.7km-long tunnel at the NTPC’s power project in Tapovan which is in the focus of the rescue operation,” said Bhadauria. “The rescuers have cleared the muck up to about 146 metres inside the tunnel but are facing difficulty due to the outflow of heavy sludge.”

The disaster site to search for more bodies.

Praveen Alok, a spokesperson for the State Disaster Relief Force, said about 70 of their personnel are searching for bodies in the river in Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri Garhwal, and Pauri Garhwal. “After recovering the bodies, their DNA samples are being collected....to ascertain their identities...”

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