More than 50 workers immersed in snow and debris after an avalanche in the state of Uttarakhand had hit a construction space.
The rescuers regained the eighth and last body from the site of an avalanche in a remote area of northern India, said the army and marked the end of a marathon farm at temperatures below zero.
More than 50 workers were dipped under snow and debris after the avalanche had hit a construction space near Mana Village on the Border In the Himalaya state on Friday near Mana Village.
The authorities had revised the number of workers on site at the time of the avalanche from 55 to 54 after a worker who had previously been buried as buried had taken home safely before the avalanche was hit.
On Saturday, savior had managed to pull out 50 people, four later suffered their injuries, according to an explanation of the Indian army.
The rescue teams had restored the remaining bodies by Sunday, the army said and added that they had used a drone -based recognition system and a rescue dog to help with their searches.
Many of the captive migrant workers were on a motorway expansion project that covered a 50 km route (31 miles) from Mana, the last Indian village in front of the China border, to the Mana Pass.
They lived on site in steel containers who were considered more than tents and were able to withstand hard weather.
When the floor was trembling under them, the container, the construction worker Anil and his colleagues, began to slide down.
“At first we didn’t understand what happened, but when we looked out of the container window, we saw snow stacks everywhere,” said Anil, 20, the AFP news agency.
He said that the roofs of the containers began to bend inwards.
“The way we were cursed in snow had no hope of surviving,” he said, adding that life “like a dream” felt.
His colleague Vipan Kumar thought “this was the end” when he couldn’t move when he fought for air under the thick layer of snow.
“I heard a loud roaring, like thunder … before I could react, everything got dark,” he told Times of India newspaper.
The ecologically fragile Himalaya region, which is increasingly affected by global warming, is susceptible to avalanches and floods.
In 2021, almost 100 people died in Uttarakhand when a huge part of a glacier fell into a river and triggered flood floods.
Devastating monsoon floods and landslides in 2013 killed 6,000 people and led to a review of development projects in the state.
In 2022, an avalanche also killed 27 trainees in Uttarakhand, while a glacier who burst 2021 triggered a flood of falls and killed more than 200 people.
