One girl was killed and four injured when they were stuck under debris while crossing the National highway 109 on Wednesday afternoon. Talking to The Pioneer, Rudraprayag DM Dr Raghav langer said that BRO official was cutting the edge at curve because the area had become accident prone.
On Wednesday afternoon while BRO officials were making the grade, then school children reached.Seeing their arrival BRO officials allowed them to cross the curve; meanwhile, huge debris came down and five, including four school girls, were caught under debris.
Police reached the spot for their recovery and managed to extricate all five, but one girl, Kumari Vandana, was declared dead at the Community health centre, Agastyamuni. Remaining four, including 60-year-old Jagdish, was referred to Srinagar base hospital and three girls with injuries were kept in CHC Agastyamuni for observation.
Besides it, eight highly decomposed bodies were recovered from the debris at Kedarnath few days ago.Two skulls also recovered from kedarpuri on Monday so after collecting their sample last rite was done by the district administration.