Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed condolences over the loss of lives in the accident and said that local administration and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams are engaged in rescue operation.
According to the officials, Today, the Rudraprayag District Control Room informed the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) team that a vehicle had met with an accident at a location called Bhunka in the Rudraprayag district.
After a 20-hour long operation, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams successfully rescued a one and a half-year-old child on Thursday who had fallen into an open borewell in Lachyan village in Indi taluk, Vijayapura district.
A 40-year-old man was rescued after the vehicle he was travelling in fell into a ditch near Kirtinagar town in Uttarakhand's Tehri Garhwal district on Tuesday night.
Under the leadership of Shri Manikant Mishra, Commandant SDRF, a search operation was carried out late at night in search of a forest department woman officer who went missing during a vehicle accident in Chilla Canal on Monday.
After taking stock of the incident site, Commandant SDRF ident
The five-year-old girl, who fell into a 25-feet deep borewell, was rescued by NDRF and SDRF teams on the intervening night of Wednesday in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh, officials said.
The cyclone is brewing in the Bay of Bengal and is likely to cross the coasts of northern Tamil Nadu and southern Andhra Pradesh around December 4 evening.
The SDRF team, which is leading the rescue operations at an under-construction tunnel in Uttarkashi, a portion of which collapsed earlier on Sunday, started removing debris from the scene.
According to the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) they recieved information from Sonprayag police station that a fire broke out in a hotel's canteen in Gaurikund due to explosion of a gas cylinder and that SDRF team is required for relief and rescue operations.
According to the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), "Late night yesterday we received information from the Sonprayag police station that a fire broke out in a hotel's canteen in Gaurikund due to explosion of a gas cylinder and that SDRF team is required for relief and rescue operations."