The death toll of Negulsari in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur rose to 16 after two more bodies were found from the rubble 70 metres downhill today morning. Sources said that the bodies were recovered close to the wreckage of a bus with 22 people on board that was hit by boulders and buried under their debris.
The landslide buried at least five vehicles on a road on Wednesday. The police superintendent of Kinnaur district Sarju Ram Rana said, “Manual search will continue besides two fork line machines have been deployed to remove the rubble to search for people feared trapped underneath,” He also added that the administration has deployed two excavators to reach the wreckage of the bus.
State Disaster Management Authority director Sudesh Mokta stated that they have been unable to trace a car that went missing after the landslide and they also do not know how many passengers were in it. The Rescuer team earlier recovered two other cars from the rubble.
The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Jai Ram Thakur visited the spot yesterday and declared that the search operation will continue till the last body is traced.
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