(UPDATE) DEHRADUN, India — Search teams in northern India had rescued 47 people trapped after an avalanche hit a remote border area but were still searching for eight more, officials said Saturday.
DEHRADUN, India — Search teams in northern India had rescued 47 people trapped after an avalanche hit a remote border area but were still searching for eight more, officials said Saturday.A total of 55 workers were buried under snow and debris after the avalanche hit a construction camp near a village on the border with Tibet in Chamoli district on Friday.
They said army doctors at the site had performed life-saving surgery on those critically injured.Mana village, which shares a border with Tibet, was deserted after residents moved to lower altitudes to escape the extreme weather, The Indian Express newspaper reported.Avalanches and landslides are common in the upper reaches of the Himalayas, especially during the winter season.
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