The death toll has risen to 28 due to the landslide in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district. The rescue team has discovered 3 more dead bodies from the rubble on the seventh day of the search and rescue operation yesterday.
The district Deputy commissioner Abid Hussain Sadiq said that “Three more bodies have been traced in the rubble and it would take three to four hours to retrieve them,” State Disaster Management Authority director Sudesh Mokta also informed the press that the rescue team is unable to trace one of the vehicles, a car, which went missing after the landslide. The number of passengers in it also remains unknown.
Army, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, and National Disaster Response Force as well as sniffer dogs have also been involved in the rescue operation. The rescue team also have had a tough time because of shooting stones that have hampered rescue efforts.
A three-member team expert team from the Geological Survey of India visited the landslide site on Sunday to survey the hilltop and suggested ways to deal with the challenge. A Himachal Road Transport Corporation bus on its way from Kinnaur to Haridwar was among the vehicles buried under the landslide on August 11.
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