Bodies of five trekkers recovered from Sunderdhunga Valley in Uttarakhand: SDRF
ByKalyan Das and B D Kasniyal, Dehradun
Oct 27, 2021 07:44 AM IST
The five deceased and their local guide were part of 10-member team that went missing in the heavy snowfall on October 18.
The bodies of five trekkers from Wednesday, who went missing during an expedition in the Himalayas last week, were on Tuesday recovered from Sunderdhunga Valley in Bageshwar district, about 360 kms away from Dehradun, officials said.
Relatives and friends of the trekkers who lost their lives in Uttarakhand’s Sunderdhunga Valley, arrive at the NSCBI airport in Kolkata. (PTI)
A team of state disaster response force (SDRF) is still at the spot to locate the group’s local guide, who also went missing during the extreme weather conditions on October 18, they added. “The five bodies were recovered on Tuesday afternoon from the snow by the rescue team which began operations on October 21. The bodies were then airlifted to the nearby town of Kapkot in the evening and sent to hospital for post-mortem,” Bageshwar district magistrate (DM) Vineet Kumar said.
The five deceased and their local guide were part of 10-member team that went missing in the heavy snowfall on October 18. Authorities were informed about the incident by another local guide who managed to come down, following which four people were rescued. Two high-altitude rescue teams were sent to the spot on October 21 to trace the missing people.
The deceased were identified as Sagar Dey (27), Saritsekhar Das (37) and Chandrashekhar Das (32), all residents of Howrah district, Pritam Roy (27) of Nadia district and Sadan Basak (63) from Kolkata. “The post-mortem examination of three bodies is completed...,” the DM said.