Following the avalanche, a massive rescue operation has been launched. Teams from the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have been deployed to the site.
Over 40 Border Roads Organisation (BRO) labourers are trapped under an avalanche near the border village of Mana in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Friday, February 28, 2025.
At the time of the avalanche on Friday, the village was deserted as all the villagers were in Gopeshwar, the district headquarters, nearly 100 km from Mana.
As many as 32 labourers were rescued late Friday night after 57 got trapped as a massive avalanche struck a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) camp near Mana, nearly 6 km north of Badrinath shrine in Uttarakhand, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.