Tapovan, Feb 21: One more body was recovered from a tunnel at the NTPC’s flood-ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad project site on Sunday, taking the toll in the disaster that struck Chamoli district a fortnight ago to 68.
The body recovered from the intake adit tunnel was identified as that of 27-year-old Sunil Bakhla from Lohardaga district in Jharkhand, official sources said. It takes the number of bodies pulled out of this tunnel so far to 14.
There is another tunnel in which around 35 people are suspected to have been trapped, but rescuers have not been able to reach it till now, said officials, adding the route to the second tunnel goes via this intake adit tunnel.
Five bodies were recovered from the Tapovan barrage site on Saturday. (PTI)
