The number of deaths due to landslides in the Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh has risen to 9 with the recovery of two more bodies from the rubble today.
Deputy commissioner Abid Hussain Sadiq said that the recovered dead bodies are scattered around 50-100 feet radius of the bus that was among the vehicles buried under the landslide. The rescue operations are being repeatedly hampered due to shooting stones.
Indo-Tibetan Border Police, National Disaster Response Force, the Army, and Police operating the situation. The district administration has informed that one more fork line machine has been pressed into service to trace the bodies feared trapped under the rubble. On Friday, it released a list of the 13 people who were on the bus. Police superintendent Sarju Ram Rana said, “We are hopeful that by (Saturday) evening, we would be able to retrieve more bodies,”
Separately, the flow of the Chanbdrabagha tributary of Chenab, which was obstructed due to a landslide, has returned to normal. The deputy commissioner (Lahaul-Spiti) Neeraj Kumar said, “The district administration, as a precautionary measure, has asked the villages downstream to remain alert,”
Chief secretary Ram Subagh Singh, police chief Sanjay Kundu, and minister Ram Lal Markanda conducted an aerial survey of the region to assess the situation on Friday.
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