Rescue surgery in India Avalanche ends that the eighth and finally body was found | Climate crisis news

More than 50 workers were sunk under the snow and debris after the avalanche was hit by a construction camp in the state of Uttarakrahand.

Rescuers are from the place an avalanche In the remote area of ​​northern India, the army said, marking the end of the marathon surgery at the temperatures.

More than 50 workers were flooded under the snow and debris after the avalanche hit a construction camp near the village of Man on the border with Tibet in the Himalayan State of Uttarakrahand on Friday.

At the time of the avalanche, the authorities revised the number of workers on the spot from 55 to 54 after one worker, which was previously believed to be buried, certainly headed home before the avalanche hit.

By Saturday, the rescuers managed to pull out 50 people, but four later succumbed to their injuries, according to a statement of the Indian army.

Until Sunday, the rescue teams recovered the remaining bodies, the army said, adding that they used a unmanned aircraft detection system and rescue dogs to help with their search operations.

Many of the captured were the workers of migrants who worked on a motorway expansion project that covered the 50 km (31 kilometers) section of Mana, the last Indian village before the Chinese border, to the passage of Mana.

They lived on the spot in steel containers that are considered stronger than the tent and are capable of withstanding sharp weather.

While the soil was shaking under them, a container in which the construction worker Anil and his colleagues were initially sliding.

“At first, we didn’t understand what was happening, but when we looked out the container window, we saw piles of snow all around,” said Anil, a 20 -year -old AFP news agency.

He said that the tank roofs began to bend inward.

“The way we were preoccupied with snow, we had no hope of surviving,” he said, adding that he was a living feeling “like a dream.”

His colleague Vipan Kumar thought that “this is the end” when he found himself unable to move as he fought for the air under the thick layer of snow.

“I heard a loud roar, like Thunder … Before I could react, everything darkened,” he told Times of India journalists.

Ecologically fragile Himalayan region, increasingly affected by global heating, is prone to avalanche and flood flashes.

In 2021, nearly 100 people were killed in Uttarakhand when a huge piece of glacier fell into the river, causing flashes.

Devastating monsoon floods And in 2013, the landslides killed 6000 people and led to an invitation to review development projects in the country.

In 2022, 27 mountaineers were killed in Uttarakhand and an avalanche was killed, while the Ledenjak who crackled in 2021 launched a flood and left more than 200 people.