Uttarakhand News: 8-9 Workers Go Missing After Cloud Burst Hits Uttarkashi Hotel Construction Site

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Eight to nine workers went missing at an under-construction hotel site in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi after a cloud burst damaged the area. The cloud burst has also affected the Barkot-Yamunotri Marg , ANI reported, citing Uttarkashi District Magistrate Prashant Arya.

Barkot police station SHO Deepak Kathait told PTI that they received reports of a cloudburst on the Yamunotri highway around midnight. The authorities believe that labourers were swept away by heavy rain. Eight to nine people, all of Nepali origin, are currently missing, and search efforts are ongoing, he added. Due to the cloudburst, the highway remains closed at multiple locations, including Silai bend, informed Kathait.

Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, in a post on X, informed that rescue operations are being conducted in the region.

"In the tragic incident of a landslide in the Silai Band area of Barkot Tehsil, Uttarkashi district, it has been reported that some workers are missing. Teams, including SDRF, NDRF, and others, have reached the site and are engaged in intensive relief and rescue operations. I am in constant contact with the concerned authorities regarding this matter,” he wrote.

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The incident comes days after the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) resumed search operations for two pilgrims, who went missing after a landslide on the trek route to Yamunotri, resumed on Wednesday.

Eleven-year-old Bhavika Sharma from Delhi and Kamlesh Jethwa from Mumbai went missing after they, along with three others, were injured when boulders fell from a hillside following the landslide on Monday, reported PTI.

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Previously, Rasik, a devotee from Mumbai , was rescued in an injured condition, while two mutilated bodies identified as that of Harishankar (47) from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh and his 8-year-old daughter Khyati were pulled out, the report said, citing disaster management officials.

The landslide happened on Monday afternoon at 9, Kainchi Bhairav Mandir, a location on the trek route to the Himalayan temple.

The pilgrims fell into a gorge after a landslide hit the railings along the road.

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The yatra to the Bahirav temple through the trek route remained suspended on June 24. Debris damaged the road and railing near the Himalayan temple, the site of the landslide.

"We have kept the yatra on hold during the day, as you can see the spot is sensitive. Once the rubble is cleared, we hope to open the yatra on Wednesday. The search by the SDRF (State Disaster Response Force), NDRF (National Disaster Response Force), and the police personnel for the two missing pilgrims continues," Uttarkashi District Magistrate (DM) Prashant Arya told PTI.

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