Mandi (Himachal Pradesh): One more body of a student of a Hyderabad engineering college was found by rescue workers yesterday scouring the Beas river in Mandi, taking the deaths in the tragedy to six.
A massive search operation continued for the third day to locate the remaining 18 of the 24 students and a tour operator who went missing in the flash-flood after water was released into the river without a warning from a nearby hydropower project, officials said. They said chances of recovering any survivor of the tragedy that struck Sunday evening were bleak.
The latest body was recovered near Hanogi Mata temple, located near the accident site, an official said.
The victim has been identified as Shabir Hussain and his mother Aisa Hussain, who was camping here, identified the body.
“I want my child back. No stone should be left unturned to find him,” Aisa told IANS on Tuesday.
“He should be traced at all cost. If he’s not alive, I want the body of my son back,” she said. Aisa is among the 55 parents and family members of the missing students of the V N R Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology in Hyderabad who have been desperately waiting here to hear about their missing sons and daughters.
IANS
