Two other workers who had been missing for 20 days close to the Arunachal-China border were found.

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• Jul 25, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

Digital Desk: While a search for 10 additional workers was ongoing
on Sunday, two more construction workers who went missing from a remote road
project in Arunachal Pradesh were located, according to officials.

The 19 people who went missing 20 days ago in the Kurung Kumey
district of Arunachal Pradesh included the labourers who are still missing.

The two rescued labourers, Shamidul Shek, 19, and Kholebuddin
Shek, 27, are both severely unwell and receiving care at the government
hospital in Naharlagun, close to Itanagar, according to Bengia Nighee, deputy
commissioner of the Kurung Kumey district.

The potential of deadly snakes caused the State Disaster
Response Force (SDRF), which included a local guide, to halt the missing
operation in the late evening.

On Monday, the search efforts for the remaining 9 missing
workers would pick up again.

According to the two workers that were saved by the SDRF, they
left four other workers behind who were in severe condition and could not
navigate the dense forest and rocky terrain.

He said that inclement weather prevented the Indian Air Force
(IAF) helicopter from participating in the operation on Sunday.

The 19 workers entered a dense forest full of dangerous snakes
and other wild creatures after leaving their project site camp in Huri on the
evening of July 5, according to the Deputy Commissioner, who is personally
overseeing the rescue efforts.

The employees then divided into two groups of eight and
eleven, with one group of eleven moving in one direction and the other in
another.

According to him, search activities for the remaining missing
people in Damin circle have been carried out by a 25-member team of the SDRF,
the police, and neighbourhood volunteers.

The 19 employees, most of whom were Muslims and Assamese,
had been hired by a contractor to work on a road that the Border Road Organization
was building (BRO).

According to reports, the workers quit their jobs because
the contractor refused to give them a few days off to celebrate Eid.