Uttarakhand: Woman dead, 5 pilgrims rescued after avalanche hits Atlakoti
Woman died while five others were rescued after a group of pilgrims was hit by an avalanche in Uttarakhand’s Atlakoti on Sunday.
Atlakoti: A woman died while five others were rescued after a group of pilgrims was hit by an avalanche in Uttarakhand’s Atlakoti on Sunday.
The group of six pilgrims was stuck after a glacier fragment broke off at Atlakoti on the Hemkund Sahib Yatra route on Sunday evening. Five of them were rescued, but a woman had gone missing after the incident.
On being informed, a joint search and rescue operation was launched by the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF), and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). Later, the dead body of the woman was recovered from the same area. The deceased was identified as Kamaljit Kaur.
“A total of 6 Sikh pilgrims were trapped in this avalanche. ITBP and SDRF successfully rescued five pilgrims on Sunday. During the search this morning, the team found the body of a female pilgrim in the snow,” SDRF commandant Manikant Mishra said. The SDRF later handed over the body of the deceased to local police.
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