At least 10 people were killed in an avalanche in the Himalayas on Tuesday and another 18 are still missing. according to a new balance communicated this Wednesday by the Indian police.
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“Rescue teams have recovered 10 bodies“Uttarakhand state police said on Twitter, adding that a total of 14 people had been rescued.
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Ridhim Aggarwal, head of the Uttarakhand rescue operation, said a total of 42 members of the expedition were “trapped in the avalanche”: four died, 12 were rescued and 26 are still missing.
“The operation stopped at night because there was a lot of snow in the area,” added the official, who had previously reported 33 people trapped by the avalanche.
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The group consisted of trainees from a local mountaineering institutethe Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.
The latter confirmed the presence of 34 trainees and seven supervisors in the group, without specifying a 42nd member of the team mentioned by the rescue officer. Vishal
Ranjan, director of the institute, confirmed the four deaths and the suspension of rescue operations “due to heavy rain and snowfall in the area.”
“We have dispatched two air force helicopters and the third one is on standby due to bad weather,” Devendra Singh Patwal, head of disaster management, told AFP.
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Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh lamented on Twitter “the loss of precious lives due to a landslide that affected an expedition organized by the Nehru Institute in Uttarkashi”, the district capital.
Although studies are lacking to quantify the impact of climate change in the Himalayas, mountaineers have observed the widening of the cracksthe presence of water in previously snow-covered areas and the increase in glacial lakes.
AFP
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