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For the last one month, our team has been camping at the Tapovan power plant disaster site in Uttarakhand. The team met hundreds of victims and the families of those missing/dead in the last couple of weeks. Asha Negi (name changed for privacy) is one of them.
When we met her three weeks ago, she was numb, sitting expressionless at the corner of the temporary relief camp in Tapovan. It seemed her body had no energy left, even to cry. She was in a state of complete shock and despair.
Our team member sat beside her for more than an hour, struggling to find the right words, before she finally spoke. When we asked Asha how she was, she turned her eyes towards us, and seemed to be noticing us for the first time in the last few hours.
Express News Service
DEHRADUN: After MS Khati, additional chief medical officer of Chamoli district said that those found from the tunnel must have been alive for 4-5 days, the state government officials issued a clarification on Tuesday evening.
MS Khati, the ACMO earlier in the day had said, Most people found in the tunnel died 2-3 days after the flash floods. The post-mortem reports indicate that they died 4-5 days back. Many of died on February 12-13.
A total of 11 bodies have been recovered from the Tapovan tunnel out of which two were recovered on Tuesday.
Dr GS Rana, chief medical officer of Chamoli district who featured in the clarification video on the matter, said, The Post-mortem of all 58 bodies has been conducted following the norms. These people died of trauma due to multiple reasons including injuires, filling of sludge, muck, sand and water in their lungs. I have been conducting the PMs myself and supervising the teams doing so. After going through every s