Hopes for recovery of six members of a family hailing from Hardoi were shattered on Thursday when their bodies were recovered from Uttarakhand, where flash floods and landslide wracked havoc making several thousand persons stranded while many of them had also lost their lives.
Sources said that, Om Prakash Pandey, a resident of Ram Nagar locality and a mill owner of Hardoi, had gone to Kedarnath and Badrinath pilgrimage along with six others on a SUV on June 8 last. They had gone missing in Uttarakhand landslides and flash floods in the past few days. Police have recovered the bodies of Om Prakash (60), his wife Sushma (56), daughter-in-law Kusum (30), grandson Anshu (8) and Abhi (10) and their son Anuj’s sister-in-law Premlata Mishra (35) on Wednesday.
A couple of days ago, driver Rakesh and domestic help Rahul, who had accompanied the family on the trip, had phoned at their residence and informed about the tragedy to their son Atul. They said that they had put up at Birla hotel in Rambara, which was washed away by the landslide and heavy rains. MP Usha Verma also visited their residence and expressed grief over the death of family members. Meanwhile, two others family were still missing in Uttarakhand landslides. Four members of a family of retired sub-inspector from Subhash Nagar locality and nine persons of Pali area had also gone on pilgrimage and are missing so far. Hundreds of people have lost their lives in Uttarakhand landslide, while thousands of others were trapped in heavy rains and floods in the past few days.