Uttarakhand catastrophe: Rescuers pull out 6 our bodies from Tapovan tunnel, 7 from different places; toll rises to 51

Image Source : FILE PHOTO/ PTI Uttarakhand catastrophe: Rescuers pull out 6 our bodies from Tapovan tunnel, 7 from different places; toll rises to 51
Rescue groups on Sunday recovered 13 extra our bodies, together with the primary ones to be pulled out from the sludge-choked Tapovan tunnel the place a large operation to succeed in about 30 folks trapped inside started after a flash flood in Chamoli district every week in the past. Six our bodies had been recovered from the Tapovan energy venture tunnel, six from Raini upstream and one from the riverbank in Rudraprayag, taking the confirmed dying toll within the Uttarakhand catastrophe to 51.
Officials stated over 150 folks nonetheless stay lacking after the February 7 devastation, probably triggered by an avalanche within the higher reaches of the Alaknanda river system. A surge of water in Dhauliganga and Rishiganga rivers had ripped by means of two hydel initiatives.
Bodies of victims had been being discovered at completely different places by the river over the previous week, however rescuers had thus far failed to succeed in anybody – useless or alive – within the tunnel community on the National Thermal Power Corporation’s 520 MW Tapovan-Vishnugad venture.
Chamoli District Magistrate Swati S Bhadauria and Superintendent of Police Yashwant Singh Chauhan rushed to the tunnel when the primary two our bodies had been introduced out within the early hours of Sunday.
Four extra our bodies had been recovered later from the tunnel, which is full of particles introduced by the flash flood.
Officials stated a helicopter has been stored on standby on the Tapovan rescue web site to rapidly fly out survivors, if there are any, for medical remedy.

Rescuers are additionally persevering with with an alternate strategy –- making an attempt to widen a gap they’ve drilled into one other interconnected tunnel from the place the trapped males might maybe be reached.
The males discovered useless Sunday included Alam Singh from Tehri, Anil (Dehradun district) Jitendra Kumar (Jammu), Shesh Nath (Faridabad), JItendra Dhanai (Tehri), Suraj Thakur (Kushinagar) Jugal Kishore (Punjab), Rakesh Kapur (Himachal Pradesh), Harpal Singh (Chamoli), Ved Prakash (Gorakhpur), Dhanurdhari (Gorakhpur).
The our bodies had been stored at a short lived mortuary at Tapovan, officers stated.
The Chamoli DM stated about 445 folks stranded after the flash flood have thus far been despatched to their villages utilizing helicopters. Over 500 ration kits have been distributed within the affected areas.
Medical camps put up within the affected villages have thus far handled 998 sufferers.
The strategy of cremating the victims after taking their DNA samples continued in Chamoli district. Two our bodies and 4 severed limbs had been cremated on Sunday.
The companies concerned within the Tapovan rescue work embody the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, the National Disaster Response Force and the State Disaster Response Force.
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