Kathmandu: Four Nepalese workers were killed as they were buried under debris after a landslide amid heavy rain near Fata in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district early on Friday, prompting the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) to start a rescue operation.
According to information provided by SDRF, it received information about the landslide from the District Control Room, Rudraprayag, at 1.37 am, and an SDRF team immediately left for the spot under Inspector Karn Singh. Due to the blockage of the Doliya Devi road, the SDRF team reached the spot after a trek of over 2 kilometres.
“On reaching the spot, the team found that it was impossible for the JCB machine to reach there due to heavy rains. The SDRF jawans then started manually digging and removing debris to reach those trapped. The SDRF Uttarakhand Police team has recovered four bodies from the debris and handed them over to the district police,” said the SDRF.
The deceased have been identified as Tul Bahadur, Purna Nepali, Kishna Parihar, and Chiku Bura, all residents of Nepal working in Rudraprayag. The district administration said the four people were living in a camp near the Pawan Hans helipad in Fata and were buried under the debris.
As per the Uttarakhand State Emergency Operations Centre data, so far 61 people have lost their lives, 35 were injured, and two are missing due to disasters caused by excessive rain since June 15 this year. In Uttarakhand, most of the districts are witnessing incessant rainfall while the Meteorology Department has predicted further heavy downpours during the next 7 days.
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