NDRF teams today screened out the areas of Kedarnath, Jungle Chatti, Gaurikund, Guptkashi, Sonprayag, Bhairav Chatti and Gaddi in Uttarakhand and rescued 59 persons. Besides this, the teams of NDRF and ITBP recovered Rs.1,14,83,360 from plunderers. NDRF used UAV to screen the whole area of Kedarnath axis to rule out the presence of survivors in the inaccessible places.
Till now, NDRF has rescued 5941 persons and retrieved 125 dead bodies by search and rescue operations besides helping civil administration in distributing relief materials.
More than 200 ITBP expert mountaineers have constructed a rope bridge on Alakananda river at Lambagad with three ropes. This has tripled the number of victims being evacuated through rope. By 1200 hrs. today (24/06/13), ITBP has evacuated about 500 yatris through this rope bridge.
Courtesy: pib.nic.in (Press Information Bureau)
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this was a great done by ITBB..construction of rope bridge at lambagad is not an easy task .it is only ITBP who made the path aproachable to the victims.my best wishes to all pilgrims for their safe evacuation n congratulation to ITBP n NDRF for their excellent work....
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