Rescuers’ trek to avalanche-hit area might take days
The snow-covered Nanda Devi mountain as seen from Auli town, in the northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India. Picture: REUTERS
“The first aerial recce has concluded,” said Vijay Kumar Jogdanda, the top public servant in the Pithoragarh district of India’s rugged state of Uttarakhand. A team of 10-15 rescuers, comprising police, disaster-response personnel and administrators has also fanned out to track down survivors, said Tripti Bhatt, an official of the Uttarakhand State Disaster Response Force .
But the rescuers would need at least three or four days of walking to get to the avalanche site, another official said.
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