The bodies of three out of five persons who were swept away in Kali river in Pithoragarh district while the car they were in met with a road accident on March 28 were recovered on Saturday. Pithoragarh police are still searching for the bodies of the remaining two—Mohan Singh and Palak.
Bodies recovered so far have been identified to be of Neema Bora, resident of Payya Pauri, Pushpa Devi, resident of Baram and Bolero driver Sujan Singh. However, the Bolero is yet to be traced. “We are trying by all means to recover the bodies of the two missing and the car,” said Pithoragarh SP Roshan lal Sharma on Saturday.
Notably, five persons were swept away in river Jauljivi, when the car they were in skidded off the road and fell into the river on March 28.
Sharma said that along with local police, SDRF and water police have been pressed into service to trace the missing. He said that in view of increasing road accidents in the area, the police station officers have been directed to identify the accident -prone areas in the district. They were directed to take appropriate steps like installing sign boards at these places to warn the people of the vulnerability of these places to mishaps, he added.