India: Avalanche traps over 20 trainee mountaineers, four dead
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An avalanche in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand has trapped at least 28 trainee mountaineers. The avalanche was reported near Draupadi's Danda 2 mountain peak in Uttarkashi. The trainee mountaineers are from Nehru Mountaineering Institute in Uttarkashi. The institute has confirmed that four of the trapped mountaineers have died.
According to a release by the NIM, 41 people including 34 trainees and 7 mountaineering instructors were hit by the avalanche.The institute said that the as per the training schedule, the climbers moved to the mountain on September 23 after the revision of rock-climbing training at NIM and Tekhla rock climbing training area.
"The Rescue work is in progress as of now four bodies have been recovered. SDRF, NDRF and Indian Air Force are helping in the rescue," said the release.
Eight of the trapped mountaineers have been rescued and have been taken to Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Hospital for treatment.
"Eight mountaineers were immediately rescued by the team. However, there has been no clarity on deaths," Vivek Pandey, ITBP`s PRO told ANI, adding that the group was on a mission to reach Draupadi`s Danda-2 mountain peak, located at 18,000 feet when an avalanche at around 8 am on Tuesday.
The ITBP, National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster Response Force along with local police started the rescue operation as soon as they received the information about the incident.
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"All injured and stranded persons will be taken to a helipad at almost 13,000 ft first, and then they will be brought down to Matli helipad. Will be using ITBP hospital," Pandey added.
He said that more updates were awaited and added that no mountaineer from the group was reported missing.
Uttarakhand's Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami took to Twitter and said that 'rapid relief and rescue operations' were being carried out.
"Rapid relief and rescue operations are being carried out by the district administration, NDRF, SDRF, Army and ITBP personnel along with the team of NIM to rescue the trainees trapped in the avalanche in Draupadi`s Danda-2 mountain peak at the earliest," said Taking Uttarakhand Cief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in a tweet.
CM Dhami said that he has spoken to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and requested for help from the army to speed up the rescue operation.
"He has assured us to give every possible help from the Centre. A rescue operation is being conducted to bring out everyone," Dhami said.
(With inputs from agencies)
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