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Police launches drive to find missing bodies from 2013 Kedarnath tragedy

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Police launches drive to find missing bodies from 2013 Kedarnath tragedy

Police launches drive to find missing bodies from 2013 Kedarnath tragedy

Police launched a drive to search for skeletons of people who went missing in Uttarakhand's Rudraprayag in 2013 Kedarnath disaster.

Search operation is underway at Gaurikund-Kedarnath tracking route to find missing people of Kedarnath tragedy.

Speaking to ANI, the Garhwal Range IG Abhinav Kumar said, "There is a discrepancy in the number of missing people and bodies recovered.

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test of skeletons will be done." This drive is being conducted jointly by state police and SDRF (State Disaster Response Force).

A total of 10 teams have been deployed at various track routes including the Gaurikund-Kedarnath by the state government for this search operation.

It is worth noticing that the state government had conducted several search operations in this regard in the past six years also, in which more than 600 skeletons have been found.

The search drive which started from September 16 will conclude on September 22.


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