7 of 11 trekkers who went missing after Uttarakhand avalanche found dead, two rescued

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• Oct 23, 2021 | moderator

Dehradun: The total death toll in the Uttarakhand avalanche along the Harsil-Chitkul trek route has risen up to seven. According to a report by a national daily, two trekkers of a trekking group remain missing and two others have been rescued, officials said on Friday. The injured are being treated in Harsil and Uttarakashi, Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar said.

Seven bodies were retrieved by the rescue team at an altitude of 5,000 metres.

While speaking to the media, Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar confirmed that the bodies of seven trekkers have been recovered, while two have been rescued and two others remain missing. These are from a group of 11 trekkers who had gone missing Harsil.

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Meanwhile, five more bodies of trekkers from another group of 11 trekkers, which went missing near Lamkhaga Pass, were also recovered, said the DGP, reported Times Now.

32-year-old Mithun Dari from Bengal, one of the trekkers who has been rescued is currently undergoing treatment at the Harsil Army Hospital. He reportedly told his family members that he saw the snowstorm sweeping over others and lost touch with them afterwards, reported News18.

The kin of the missing trekkers urged the West Bengal government to provide details of their whereabouts and end the agonizing wait of the kin.

Meanwhile, the daughter of Sadhan Kumar Basak, one of the members of the trekking team that went missing, urged the West Bengal government on Friday to provide details of their whereabouts and end the agonising wait of the kin.

“My father had last talked to us over the phone three days back. The local administration is not yet confirming the worst, but we have been getting varying reports. I am requesting with folded hands to both chief ministers (West Bengal and Uttarakhand) to trace and bring him back to inform even if it’s the bad news. I just want to see his face,” the young woman, struggling to hold back her tears, was quoted as saying by the PTI.

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Apart from Basak, who hails from Thakurpukur in the city, three others from Bagnan in Howrah – Chandrasekhar Das, Saritsekhar Das, Sagar Dey – and one from Ranaghat were part of the team.

Ranaghat resident Pritam Roy (27), a student of MBBS fourth year of Murshidabad Medical College, was an intrepid member of the team having left for the expedition on October 10, and his family got the message on Thursday night that there is no news about him. “I don’t know if my son is dead or alive, but I want to see him. He can’t be trapped in the snowy caves forever,” his father Pramit Roy said.

Heavy rain battered Uttarakhand for nearly three days, beginning Sunday night, with the Kumaon division bearing the brunt of it.