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  • Uttarakhand flash flood: One extra physique recovered, toll now 80; 124 nonetheless lacking

    One extra physique was recovered from the barrage web site close to Dhauliganga river in Tapovan space in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on Saturday.
    With the most recent retrieved physique, a complete of 80 our bodies have been recovered to date whereas 124 are nonetheless lacking after a flash flood hit hydro energy mission websites in Rishiganga and destroyed the under-construction NTPC hydro energy mission web site downstream in Dhauliganga in Chamoli district on February 7.

    Chamoli district catastrophe administration officer NK Joshi mentioned the physique was recovered in the present day through the elimination of particles close to the barrage web site. He mentioned one physique was recovered from the tunnel of NTPC’s hydro energy mission web site in Tapovan on Thursday, including that clearing of slush within the tunnel is underway.

  • Rescue operation might wind up in 3-4 days: DGP

    Image Source : PTI Rescue operation might wind up in 3-4 days
    Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar on Monday stated he’s anticipating that the rescue operation in disaster-hit Chamoli might wind up within the subsequent 3-4 days. “I think the rescue operation may wind up in 3-4 days. By that time, we may be able to cover everything. But if the need be, the rescue operation may continue for more days, may be for another one month,” stated Kumar.
    Meanwhile, rescuers discovered 5 extra our bodies together with three from inside a tunnel of the disaster-hit Tapovan mission in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand since Sunday night time taking the full variety of our bodies recovered thus far to 55.
    During the excavation work contained in the tunnel, 9 our bodies have been discovered thus far, officers stated. Elsewhere, seven our bodies have been recovered from Reni space the place the Rishiganga mission was destroyed within the floods. With the restoration of 5 extra our bodies since Sunday night time, the full has gone as much as 55. Nearly 200 folks went lacking after the Feb 7 morning deluge.
    This is the primary time because the Feb 7 floods that the rescuers have been capable of finding our bodies contained in the tunnel. “We are expecting more bodies as hopes for survival are receding,” admitted a prime official. There remains to be no contact with the remaining folks trapped inside.

    DIG Nilesh Anand Bharne, who’s spokesman of the state police, claimed the rescue work had been sped up with the set up of some further machines like excavators.
    The rescuers are engaged on two locations – one contained in the tunnel and different on the stays of the Rishiganga mission in Reni. They have stopped drilling course of contained in the tunnel, stated Superintendent of Police (SP) Chamoli.
    After days of digging and excavation works, jawans of military, ITBP, NDRF and SDRF, who’re engaged within the rescue works, had managed open a sizeable portion of the tunnel. But the presence of heavy silt and sludge contained in the tunnel slowed down the excavation and digging work, prime authorities officers admitted. Rescuers additionally consulted NTPC officers to grasp the sophisticated design of the tunnel.
    As the our bodies began recovering from the particles contained in the tunnel, the rescuers are slowly digging the tunnel in order that our bodies mustn’t get hammered.
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  • IAF shares recce preliminary report from web site of Uttarakhand flash flood after glacier burst

    Image Source : ANI Indian Air Force shares recce preliminary report from web site of Uttarakhand flash flood.
    The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Sunday shared a recce preliminary report from web site of Uttarakhand flash flood which occurred after part of the Nanda Devi glacier go off Joshimath area in Chamoli.

    The IAF has shared two photographs. Picture one confirmed visuals from damaged Rishiganga Project Dam close to Tapovan whereas the second image confirmed highway & bridge damaged on account of Rubble on the entrance at Malari valley.

    Over 100 lacking after catastrophe

    Nearly 100-170 individuals are lacking or “feared dead” as a sudden flood inundated an influence challenge at Reni village in Joshimath space of Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Sunday following a glacier burst, the ITBP, which is engaged in rescue and reduction operations there, stated.

    Citing up to date inputs acquired from native administration, ITBP spokesperson Vivek Pandey advised IANS at the very least 10 our bodies have been recovered so removed from the spot, and several other individuals have been rescued, whereas that there isn’t a details about different individuals.

    Photos | Uttarakhand glacier burst triggers huge flood

     

    In its preliminary info acquired from the spot, the ITBP had, via an announcement that “more than 100 labourers at the barrage and 50 plus in the tunnel lost their life as per the incharge of Tapovan NTPC work site… As many as 150 people are missing”.

    Clarifying these inputs, Pandey stated: “As 150 people are still missing, it is difficult to say that all are dead. They can be said ‘feared dead’ or ‘missing’. Missing persons cannot be declared dead till seven years.”

    The tragedy came about after the water stage in Dhauliganga river, one of many six sources of the Ganga river, abruptly surged on Sunday morning following an avalanche close to the Rishi Ganga energy challenge. The 85 km river meets the Alaknanda river at Vishnuprayag on the base of Joshimath mountain.

    The ITBP stated that the flash flood occurred in Rishi Ganga at round 10.45 a.m. on account of a glacier falling into it and exponentially growing the amount of water. Due to this, the Rishi Ganga hydro challenge was utterly devastated, it stated.

    “The BRO bridge on Joshimath highway was also completely washed away. There were six graziers with their livestock there and they were also swept away by the flash flood,” the ITBP stated.

    (With inputs from IANS)

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