Five deceased body recovered from under the debris.

Tehri: One more body has recovered by SDRF from the debris late last night after a landslide occurred above the Chamba taxi stand in New Tehri in Uttarakhand. Five people including a four-month-old child lost their lives in this accident.

The bodies of four people Poonam Khanduri 30, her four-month-old son Sarveel and sister Saraswati Devi 45, the wife of Vinod Prasad Raturi, resident of village Rindola, Prakash 30, resident of village Navagar, Sarjula Chamba, were recovered by the administration on Monday evening. Were. Another body was recovered at around 12.30 am.

The administration team continued the work of clearing debris from the landslide site till late night. Traffic has been restored on the Chamba-New Tehri motorway after the debris has been completely removed by morning.

Two cars, a scooty and a bike were covered under hundreds of tons of debris from the hill. The public toilet built there also got ruined. Six JCB machines, dozers have been deployed to clear the debris. In view of the landslide, the administration has evacuated four houses near the police station and shifted the families to another place for safety.