India, May 27 -- A combination of mobile phone tracking, thermal drone surveillance and painstaking ground search amid steep slopes and dense forests helped rescuers trace the SUV carrying eight men from Satara that had plunged nearly 1,200 feet into a gorge in the Ambenali Ghat section near Mahabaleshwar on Sunday, killing all occupants, police officers aware of the matter told Hindustan Times.

As reported by HT on Tuesday, all eight bodies were retrieved by Monday night, the rescue operation lasting more than 20 hours since the police were informed about the group being untraceable on Sunday night. Multiple teams participated in the operation, including personnel from the Poladpur police station, volunteers from trekkers' and environme...