After being buried by an avalanche in the Himalayas in India’s Uttarakhand position, lots of construction workers were rescued from their bodies after being pulled out dead from steel tanks.
According to American media sources, the staff were able to live in the containers because they had enough oxygen to keep them alive until rescuers could extract them, according to officials.
On Friday, 54 workers were buried when the avalanche hit a construction camp near Mana village. Eight were killed.
The other 46 were rescued in an operation that lasted almost 60 hours in sub-zero temperatures and concluded on Sunday.
Most of the laborers, who were working on a roadway expansion task, were able to “withstand the wrecking landslide” thanks to the containers, according to firefighters, according to firefighters ‘ reports in The Indian Express newspaper.
” These material homes saved the majority of them. They were given just enough gas to continue until we got them out, according to a top rescue official, according to The Times of India.
Eight steel pots and a shed were hurled down the mountain by the power of the deluge, according to the paper.
Pushkar Singh Dhami, the chief minister of Uttarakhand, thanked recovery teams for their work in difficult circumstances.
The procedure involved the use of helicopters and drones by members of the American military, national and state disaster response forces, and local government.
Many of the rescued staff are receiving care in hospitals in Joshimath and Rishikesh, both in the state.
According to a film released by the military, Satyaprakash Yadav, a migrant worker from Uttar Pradesh who was one of the people who was saved, said the “avalanche hit our vessel like a landslide.”
He added that the box he was in eventually fell apart when the snow fell, ending up close to a creek.
He continued,” We managed to leave on our own and get to a nearby military host house, where we stayed the night.”
Most of them were sleeping when the deluge struck, according to Rajnish Kumar, a contractor from Uttarkhand’s Pithoragarh area.
” When the container hit the snow, it sank about 50 to 60 meters down [the mountain ] when it sank.” According to the military video, he claimed the Army immediately arrived and saved us.
Previous community councillor in Mana, Gaurav Kunwar, claimed that the area hit by the avalanche was a “migratory area” and had no permanent residents.
He claimed that single laborers who work on border roads spend the winter there because it had rained for two days prior to the deluge.
The Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand state, as well as Jammu and Kashmir, have been warned of heavy rain and snowfall until Tuesday by the Indian Meteorological Department.
Landslides and mudslides are popular in higher Himalayan regions, particularly in the winter.
According to experts, culture change has made extraordinary weather more extreme and less predictable. In addition, there has been a rapid surge in forest and building in Uttarakhand’s hilly regions in recent years.
Near 100 people died in Uttarakhand in 2021 as a result of a Himalayan glacier’s fall into the valley, causing flash floods.
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