Uttarakhand : Hundreds were forced to be buried in the rubble in the Raini disaster, even today the process of finding dead bodies continues
The process of getting dead bodies from the tunnel of NTPC’s hydroelectric project in Tapovan is going on. On Thursday, a human body was found during the cleaning of debris in the intake tunnel. Hundreds were buried under the forced rubble in the Raini disaster on 7 February 2021.
NTPC Public Relations Officer Navjot Kaur said that a dead body was recovered during cleaning of debris about 650 meters from the main tunnel. The body was fished out with the help of company employees. The body has not yet been identified due to the rotten throat. He told that there are only clothes on the human corpse. The body has been kept in the temporary mortuary of NTPC.
On February 7, 206 people had died in the Rishi Ganga disaster, out of which the bodies of 88 had been recovered. 140 workers of NTPC were also killed in this disaster, in which the bodies of many workers were trapped in the tunnel of the project.
