An avalanche Indian rescue operation ends as an eighth and definitively found body | Climate crisis

More than 50 workers immersed under snow and debris after an avalanche hit a construction camp in Ukukhand.

Rescuers restored the eighth and final body from the place of avalanche In a remote region of northern India, the army said, marking the end of a marathon operation at Subero temperatures.

More than 50 workers were immersed under snow and debris after the avalanche struck a construction camp on Friday near the village of Mana on the border with Tibet in the Himalayan state of Uzarakhand.

Authorities had reworked the number of workers on the spot during an avalanche of 55 to 54, after a worker was buried earlier to be buried, it was found to have been safe to go home before struck in the avalanche.

By Saturday, rescuers were able to take out 50 people, but four later succumbed to their injuries, according to a statement from the Indian army.

By Sunday, rescue teams have restored the other bodies, the army said, adding that they used a drone and rescue dog -based detection system to help his search operations.

Many of those in the trap were migrants workers working on a highway expansion project covering a stretch of 50 km (31 miles) from mana, the last Indian village before the border with China, to the Mana Pass.

They lived in a place in steel containers, considered stronger than tents and capable of withstanding raw weather.

As the ground under them shook, the container in which the construction worker Anil and his colleagues were, began to slide down.

“At first we didn't understand what was happening, but when we looked out the window of the containers, we saw piles of snow everywhere,” Anil told 20 years to AFP agency.

He said the container roofs were beginning to bend inwards.

“The way we were swallowed by snow was not hopeful to survive,” he said, adding that being alive feels “like a dream.”

His colleague Vipan Kumar thought “this is the end” when he turned out to be unable to move while fighting for air under the thick layer of snow.

“I heard a strong roar, like a thunder … Before I could react, everything was darkened,” he told the Times of India.

The eco -friendly Himalayan region, increasingly affected by global warming, is predisposed to avalanches and lightning floods.

In 2021, nearly 100 people were killed in Uzrakhand when a huge part of the glacier fell into a river, causing lightning floods.

Devastating monsoon floods And the landslides in 2013 killed 6,000 people and led to calls for the review of development projects in the country.

In 2022, an avalanche also killed 27 internship climbers in Uzrakhand, while a glacier, which burst in 2021, triggered a lightning flood and left over 200 people killed.