April 28, 2021 06:09 pm | Updated 06:09 pm IST - Gopeshwar (Uttarakhand)
In this April 24, 2021 picture, rescue and relief operation were underway after a glacier broke off in the Sumna area of Niti Valley near Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district.
The death toll in a recent avalanche in Sumna, near the Indo-China border in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, rose to 16 on April 28 with the recovery of one more body.
The unidentified body was recovered from the avalanche site, District Disaster Management Officer N.K. Joshi said.
Fifteen bodies were recovered from the site till April 25. All the victims were Border Roads Organisation (BRO) workers from Jharkhand, who went missing after the avalanche struck on April 23.
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