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Uttarakhand avalanche rescue: Deaths rise to eight as last body found; search operation concludes

The last body of the BRO worker was found from the avalanche site in Chamoli on Sunday (March 2, 2025) afternoon, taking the death toll to eight. With this, the multi-agency operation to rescue 54 BRO workers working at a road project site in Mana village, gets finished.

The avalanche hit the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) camp between Mana and Badrinath on Friday, burying 54 workers inside eight containers and a shed. Earlier, it was believed that the total number of avalanche-hit labourers was 55 but one of them was on unauthorised leave and had reached home safely.

Fifty labourers were pulled out of snow by Friday.

Army doctors said 46 workers have been brought to the military hospital in Jyotirmath while one with spinal chord injury was airlifted to AIIMS, Rishikesh.

The avalanche hit the BRO camp between Mana and Badrinath on Friday, burying the 54 workers inside eight containers and a shed. Earlier, it was believed that the total number of trapped labourers was 55 but one of them was on unauthorised leave and had reached home safely.

More than 200 personnel from the disaster management authority, ITBP, BRO, NDRF, SDRF, IAF, district administration, health department and fire brigade were engaged in the rescue operation. Located three kilometres from Badrinath, Mana is the last village on the India-Tibet border at a height of 3,200 metres.