Himachal engg among 3 more found dead in Kerala mudslide
Dharamshala/Thiruvananthapuram, July 10 -- Three more bodies, including that of 26-year-old Rahul Sharma, an engineer from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi, was recovered from near the tunnel project in Kerala's Wayanad on Thursday, taking the toll in Tuesday's mudslide to six, an official at the disaster control room said.
The other two victims were identified as Azharuddin Ansari, 32 from Uttar Pradesh and Mohd Imran Khan, 30, from Bihar. With the recovery on Thursday, the toll in the mudslide rose to six. Two people were still missing.
Sharma's father reached Wayanad on Wednesday in the hope that he would be rescued alive.
According to Rahul's family, he and his wife Kalpana had moved to Wayanad after getting married in February this year.
"On Thursday morning, I traced his body near the accident site, following which we informed the rescue team. It is an extremely difficult time for all of us," Ramveer Sharma, Rahul's maternal uncle, told HT.
The disaster struck on Tuesday in Kalladi when the debris, accumulated as part of the excavation works of the tunnel on the Meppadi side, slid under the force of heavy monsoon rains.
Officials said Ansari was a surveyor and Khan was employed as an excavator operator at the project site.
"Ansari's body was retrieved first on Thursday by rescue personnel from an area near the Meenakshi bridge. Subsequent searches from an area below the bridge and close to the river banks led to the bodies of Sharma and Khan being found. Searches continue tomorrow," said a district official.
The three bodies were identified by victims' family members who had arrived in Wayanad.
Among the two missing are project manager Vikram Rana, 59, a resident of the Fatehpur area in Kangra district....
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