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21 mountaineers missing after avalanche in northern India
NEW DELHI (AP) — Not less than 21 trainee mountaineers had been reported lacking after getting trapped in an avalanche in northern India, officers mentioned Tuesday.
A bunch of 29 folks was hit by an avalanche on a mountain peak situated within the Gangotri vary of the Garhwal Himalayas on Tuesday morning, mentioned Uttarakhand state police chief Ashok Kumar.
He mentioned the rescuers pulled eight mountaineers from the snow and so they had been nonetheless looking for the remaining 21.
All of the lacking had been present process coaching at a mountaineering institute however removed from the avalanche website, Kumar mentioned.
Uttarakhand state’s prime elected official, Pushkar Singh Dhami, mentioned the Nationwide Catastrophe Response Pressure and the Indian military deployed groups to assist with rescue efforts. The Indian air power deployed two helicopters to seek for the lacking.
Avalanches are widespread within the mountainous areas of Uttarakhand. Final yr, a glacier burst within the state resulted in a flash flood that left greater than 200 folks lifeless.