Chamoli District Magistrate Sandeep Tiwari said that the search operation was expected to gain pace as the weather was clear and a ground penetrating radar (GPR) system from Delhi was expected to arrive any moment to aid the efforts.
Images released by the Defence PRO on the social network X showed the extreme difficulty in which the IBEX Brigade operated all through February 28, extricating the BRO labourers trapped under several feet of snow, then trudging through the deep snow with stretchers on their shoulders. By March 1 morning, the weather conditions had improved and helicopter evacuation had begun.
Helicopter evacuation has begun in Chamoli district, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, on March 1, after a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) camp was buried in an avalanche on February 28, trapping 55 people under deep snow.
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