Almost two weeks after 24 visiting students from an engineering college in Hyderabad and a tour operator were washed away in the Beas river, three more bodies were recovered on Sunday, taking the total number of bodies retrieved to 16, officials said.
Eight students and the tour operator are still missing and the search operation continued for the 14th day.The bodies were identified as those of Bairineni Ritwik, Muppidi Kiran Kumar, CH Parameshwar.These were spotted near the Pandoh dam, almost 15 km downstream from the accident spot, police said.One more body was also recovered from the spot, but it has not been identified, police officials said.