From the site of the landslide in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, today, 2 more bodies were recovered taking the death toll to 25, according to the information by a senior official. Search and rescue operation for those missing in the landslide that occurred on Wednesday last are underway, the official added.
State Disaster Management Director, Sudesh Kumar Mokhtar, said that “as per information provided by Bhawanagar SHO, two bodies had been retrieved from the rubble at Chaura village on National Highway 5 in Nichar tehsil on Monda.”. A sport utility vehicle and its passengers feared buried under the rubble could not be traced thus far, he said, adding that it might be possible that the vehicle rolled down with the debris. The rescue operation is being carried out jointly by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and members of local police and home guards.
Earlier on Wednesday, 8 bodies were found in a taxi during the search and rescue operation. 2 cars had also been recovered in a smashed condition on Wednesday, but no one was found in them. On Thursday, four bodies were found from the landslide site, while three were taken out on Friday.
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