At least four workers died after The avalanche has encouraged a large building crew Working on a highway near the Indian mountain border with Tibet, the Indian army said on Saturday.
The incident happened near the Passage of the Man in the North State of Uttarakrahand on Friday, and 55 construction workers were initially trapped under the snow. The rescuers pulled 50 workers, four of whom later died, the Indian army said in a statement.
It states that the search for five remaining missing workers continues, with several teams of rescuers and military helicopters scanning the site of the incident. The statement did not determine the number of injured, but said they were “a priority for evacuation.”
Chandrashekhar Vashistha, a senior administrative official, said some of the workers sustained serious injuries and were hospitalized.
Many of the captured workers were workers of migrants who worked on the project expanding the highway and blacks along 50 kilometers (31 kilometers) dentures from the Man, the last village on the Indian side, to the passage of the Mana bordering Tibet.
“Rescue operations were slow because of strong snowfall, and the area remained inaccessible,” said Kamlesh Kamal, a spokesman for Indo-Tibetan border police. He said that the rescuers had to go through a few meters of snow, snowstorms and weak visibility.
The avalanche and landslides are common in the upper achievements of the Himalayas – especially during the winter season.
Scientists, however, warned that climate change encouraged human burning fossil fuels makes extreme time events more difficult And less predictable, because winter snow and ice melt faster, and storm systems are super -packed through earthly warmer oceans.
2021 in Uttarakhand was killed by almost 100 people after huge Glakier Kunk either in the riverlaunching flash. Monsoon Floods and landslides in 2013 He killed 6,000 people and led to an invitation to an overview of the development projects in the country.
