‘The work of removing slush from the 2.5-km-long tunnel at Tapovan is still under way and JCB has been deployed,’ NDRF Director-General S.N. Pradhan
A day after a part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district causing massive devastation, a joint team comprising the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel continued to carry out the search operation for trapped labourers on Monday.
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“The work of removing slush from the 2.5-km-long tunnel at Tapovan is still under way. JCB has been deployed. Three NDRF teams had joined the rescue operations earlier along with canine search squads. More personnel are being airlifted using MI-17 helicopters,” said NDRF Director-General S.N. Pradhan.
Uttarakhand Director-General of Police Ashok Kumar told the media that following the glacier burst, boulders and debris caused massive damage to…