The District administration of Kinnaur on Thursday recovered six more bodies of migrant Nepalese labourer who died in flash flood and incessant rains in worst affected Kinnaur district of the State taking the death toll to 20.
The dead bodies of six Nepalese labourers were found in interior lippa village after some local residents informed the administration about them. The State on Thursday also dispatched rescue teams comprising National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel, ITBP and police personnel in search of teams of trekkers, who have gone into high altitude areas of Kinnaur and are stranded.
Government officials did not rule out the possibility of foreigners among trekkers who might have been stranded in treacherous terrains of the district. Meanwhile, rescue operations were still on and till 12.30pmtotal of 127 people were evacuated to safer locations by the two Indian Air Force (IAF) and one state chopper.
Among the deaths, now the breakup figure is Kinnaur-16, two at Sirmaur and two in Shimla districts. Chief minister Virbhadra Singh also held an urgent review meeting for relief and restoration operations at Mandi, where he is engaged in campaigning for the parliamentary bypoll.