India 4 dead, more than 40 rescued after avalanche in the Himalayas
After an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas, rescue workers have brought most of the 55 people affected from the buried construction workers' camp to safety. However, four of the men succumbed to their serious injuries, the Indian news agency PTI reported. The avalanche hit the camp in the border region with Tibet early on Friday morning.
01.03.2025, 13:58
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According to PTI, five workers were still missing on Saturday afternoon. The avalanche had hit the camp where around 55 workers were staying in containers and a shed. Several of the workers were able to bring themselves to safety, others were found alive.
Army doctors operated on site
As the Indian army announced on social media, special radar equipment, drones and avalanche sniffer dogs were used in the rescue operations. Helicopters were also constantly in the air to fly in equipment and fly out injured people. "Army doctors performed life-saving operations on the seriously injured on site," it said on Platform X.
Videos from the accident site showed soldiers working between bent metal walls, overturned shelves and blankets lying around in the snow. A lot of fresh snow had recently fallen in the region.
Residents were aware of the risk of avalanches
According to the Indian army, the construction workers affected by the accident were employed by an organization that builds or maintains roads in the border region in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. The accident occurred near the border village of Mana.
The Times of India newspaper quoted a local environmental activist as saying that people in the region have been moving to lower regions every winter for hundreds of years. The entire region is very vulnerable to avalanches, said Chandi Prasad Bhatt.
