The incident took place near the PASS flaw on Friday in northern Uttarakhand, and 55 construction workers were initially trapped under the snow. The lifeguards pulled out 50 workers, four of whom later died, the Indian army said in the statement.
It was said that the search for the five remaining missing workers continues with several rescue teams and military helicopters that scan the site of the incident. The statement did not specify the number of injuries, but they said they were “that they are” priority for evacuation. ”
Chandrashekhar Vashistha, senior administrative officer, said that some of the workers suffered serious injuries and were hospitalized.
Many of the captured workers were migrant workers who worked on the project expansion of the highway and Blacktopping, along 50 kilometers (31 miles) that stretch from the mane, the last village on the Indian side, to the mane passing by border.
“Rescue operations were slow due to abundant snowfall, and the area remained inaccessible,” Kamlesh Kamal, the Spokesperson of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. He said that the rescuers had to work through several foots of snow, snowstorms and poor visibility.
Avalanches and landslides are common in the upper reaches of the Himalayas – especially during the winter season.
Scientists, however, warned that climate change was initiated by human incineration of fossil fuels creates extreme weather events as hard as possible And less predictable, as a winter snow and ice tops faster and stormy systems are superplaced because of the warmer oceans of the earth.
2021. In Uttarakhand, almost 100 people in Uttarakhand died Glacier Chunk fell into the riverActivating flashes. Monsoon Floods and landslides in 2013 6,000 people were killed and led to a call for an overview of development projects in the state.
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