More than three months after the glacial disaster in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, one more body was recovered on Friday from Tapovan tunnel taking the death toll in the tragedy to 83. Rescue teams recovered the body from the tunnel at NTPC’s Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project on Friday, Chamoli district disaster management officer N K Joshi said. The body has not been identified yet, he added.
An avalanche on February 7 had caused large-scale damage to the project besides totally demolishing the Rishiganga hydel project at Raini village in the district.
With the latest recovery, 83 bodies and 36 human body parts out of a total of 204 people missing have been recovered so far from different places hit by the disaster, Joshi said.
Forty-nine bodies have been identified while 121 people are still missing, the officer said.
