India, June 11 -- A 48-year-old tourist from Haryana has gone missing in Uttarakhand's Valley of Flowers, with forest officials, police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams conducting an intensive search operation for the second consecutive day on Thursday.

Authorities said Gabbar Singh, a resident of Faridabad in Haryana, failed to return from a trek on Tuesday evening, prompting them to launch an extensive search and rescue operation.

"Search teams have been combing the area continuously. We also deployed two drones on Wednesday to scan difficult and inaccessible stretches of the valley. Despite extensive efforts throughout Wednesday and Thursday, no trace of the missing tourist has been found so far," Divisional Forest Offi...