3 dead bodies recovered so far
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As many as 19 people are missing in a landslide incident in Uttarakhand, which occurred late last night near Gaurikund in Rudraprayag district. Teams of NDRF, SDRF, Police and Tehsil Administration are carrying out search and rescue operation, but the continuous rain in the area is hampering the search operation.
Meanwhile, the Met department has issued an orange alert warning of heavy rain at isolated places of Dehradun, Tehri, Bageshwar, Pauri, Champawat, Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar and Haridwar during the next 24 hours.
Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami took stock of the incident at the disaster control room in Dehradun and instructed officials to speed up the ongoing relief and rescue work
Personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), the police department and district administration are carrying out rescue and search operations.
The Rudraprayag district administration have identified the missing people as Ashu (23), Priyanshu Chamoli (18), Ranbir Singh (28), Vinod (26), Mulayam (26), and seven members of the Nepali family – Amar Bohra (29), wife Anita Bohra (26), and their five minor children.
SDRF officials said they had to temporarily halt the rescue and search operation at night due to continuous rainfall and boulder falls.