More than 50 workers plunged under the snow and waste after an avalanche reached a construction field in the state of Uttarakhand.
The lifeguards recovered the eighth and last body of the site of a avalanche In a remote area of northern India, the army has said, marking the end of a marathon operation at the subzero temperatures.
More than 50 workers plunged under snow and remains after the avalanche reached a construction camp on Friday near the village of Mana on the Tibet border in the state of the Himalayan of Uttarakhand.
Authorities had reviewed the number of workers at the avalanche of 55 to 54 after a worker, before he was buried, found that he had been back home safely before he raised.
On Saturday, the lifeguards had managed to remove 50 people, but four later succumbed to their injuries, according to a statement from the Indian army.
On Sunday, rescue teams had recovered the remaining bodies, said the army, adding that they had used a Drone -based detection system and a rescue dog to help their search operations.
Many of those trapped were migrant workers who worked on a road expansion project that covered a 50 km (31 miles) section from Mana, the last Indian village before the China border, to Mana Pass.
They lived in the site in steel containers considered stronger than tents and capable of withstanding hard time.
As the ground below turned it, the container that the Anil construction worker and his colleagues were starting to descend.
« At first we did not understand what was happening, but when we looked out of the container window, we saw snow piles around, » Anil, 20, told the AFP news agency.
He said that the ceilings in the containers began to bend inward.
« The way we gobbled up in the snow, we had no hope of surviving, » he said, adding that being alive felt « like a dream. »
His colleague Vipan Kumar thought that « this was the end » when he was incapable of moving as he struggled by air under the thick layer of snow.
« I heard a strong roar, like the thunder … before I could react, everything became dark, » he told the Times of India newspaper.
The ecologically fragile Himalayan region, which is increasingly affected by global warming, is prone to avalanches and floods.
In 2021, about 100 people died in Uttarakhand when a huge piece of glacier fell into a river, causing Flash floods.
Floods of devastating monsoon And the 2013 landslides killed 6,000 people and resulted in a review of the development projects in Spain.
In 2022, an avalanche also killed 27 forming mountains in Uttarakhand, while a glacier that exploded in 2021 triggered a flood and left more than 200 people dead.
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