AFTER five days of search to find eight trekkers missing on the Kedartal route in Uttarakhand, rescuers Tuesday recovered bodies of two persons buried in avalanche, officials said. Personnel from the Uttarakhand Police’s State Disaster Response Force and the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering are involved in the search amid difficult terrain and challenging conditions.

 

A report issued by Uttarkashi district emergency operation centre at 4:30 pm said, “In the search operation, the said team informed that during the search operation, bodies of a woman and a man buried in the avalanche were recovered, which were taken out by the joint team after a lot of hard work.” The team returned to the base camp at 3 pm after completing the search operation for Tuesday