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A whistle turned into a roar of water that trapped a dozen men in a Himalayan tunnel after a glacier burst in Uttarakhand, but Rajesh Kumar lived to tell the tale.
31 Dead In Uttarakhand Disaster; Race Against Time In Tunnel Rescue Op Uttarakhand Glacier: The tunnel, where 35 people are feared trapped, is being cleared by the State Disaster Response Force and ITBP.
Updated: February 09, 2021 1:37 pm IST
Chamoli Glacier: An IAF Mi-17 is carryig NDRF personnel from Dehradun for Joshimath.
Dehradun:
A third day of massive search and rescue operation was underway today in Uttarakhand, parts of which were on Sunday hit by massive flooding following a glacier burst, killing 31 people. Disaster response teams, along with the armed forces, police, and paramilitary, continued to look for survivors among the nearly 175 missing.
Up to 450 jawans of the Indo-Tibetan Border Patrol (ITBP), five teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), eight teams of the Indian Army, a Navy team, and ffve Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters were engaged in the state, Union Home Minister Amit Shah informed the Rajya Sabha.