5 military personnel went missing after a flash flood on Friday washed away two shelters of a military camp in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley district, the State Emergency Operations Centre (SEOC) mentioned on Saturday.
In Dibang Valley, the flash flood struck Pasu Pani, round 25km past Mipi Circle, at about 4.30pm after a serious stream out of the blue swelled and inundated the encircling space.
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The flash flood incident
Superintendent of Police Pankaj Kumar mentioned seven military personnel have been caught within the floodwaters after two shelters of the fifth Grenadiers on the Pasu Pani Military Camp have been washed away. Two personnel have been rescued, whereas 5 remained lacking.
The lacking personnel have been recognized as Havaldar Upendar and military personnel Kundan, Vinod, Aditya and Samunda.
“SDRF [State Disaster Response Force], NDRF [National Disaster Response Force] and the district DDMO are at the moment engaged within the search and rescue operation,” Kumar mentioned.
Rescue ops on
Two search and rescue groups of the fifth Grenadiers have additionally been deployed. Personnel from the 58th Battalion of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), 62 RCC of the Basic Reserve Engineer Pressure (GREF), Arunachal Pradesh Police and native volunteers are helping the operation.
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A ten-member SDRF group from Pasighat additionally joined the rescue effort. The extent of harm to the military camp and different infrastructure is but to be assessed.
In a separate incident on Friday in Higher Subansiri, a landslide struck the Keojaring-Byaching highway slicing web site, burying a number of individuals underneath particles and claiming 4 lives, SEOC mentioned.
Deceased are recognized as Tadu Baki, Taji Rai, Markosh Basumatari and Babul Ali. Ali’s physique has been recovered, whereas search and restoration operations are persevering with, officers confirmed.
Personnel from Nacho police station have been deployed on the web site, whereas Hearth and Emergency Providers personnel are being mobilised from Daporijo. An SDRF group can also be helping the operation, officers mentioned.
