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Uttarakhand glacier disaster: Race against time to find over 30 trapped in tunnel
Updated On: 10 February, 2021 07:59 AM IST | Dehradun | Agencies
Two of the bodies were recovered from the debris in Raini village, National Disaster Response Force officials said, two days after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier possibly burst its banks and triggered an avalanche and floods in the Alaknanda river system.
A bulldozer and rescue teams work at the entrance of a tunnel blocked with mud and debris in Tapovan. Pic/AFP
The death toll from the Uttarakhand glacier disaster rose to 31 with five more bodies being recovered, officials said on Tuesday as multiple agencies raced against time to reach over 30 workers trapped inside a tunnel in a power project site and 175 people remained missing.
Himanti Devi shows a photo of her husband Kuldeep Kumar, a worker at a hydel project who has been missing since the glacier burst, in Ramgarh district of Jharkhand, on Tuesday. PIC/PTI
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