Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Calamity-hit Uttarakhand

123 bodies recovered from Kedarnath temple area

Stranded pilgrims climb in a row as they are evacuated by army soldiers in Govindghat on Saturday. Soldiers were working to evacuate tens of thousands of people still stranded in Uttarakhand

As many as 123 bodies were recovered from the Kedarnath shrine premises in Uttarakhand after a team of experts scoured the venue on Saturday. The death toll from the flood calamity is now 680
More bodies may come to the surface in the next couple of days as the slush and debris lying in the area is being removed.



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