ITBP rescue teams left for Khimloga pass :DC
A 35-member team of Himachal Police, Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force and Home Guard personnel has left for Khimloga Pass this morning to rescue the trapped tracker and porter in Khimloga Pass.Deputy Commissioner Kinnaur Abid Hussain Sadiq told UNI that team was deployed on the basis of an information s received last evening that on August 28, 2022, 3 trekkers and 6 porters left for Chitkul in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh from Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. Out of which one trekker 50-year-old Narottam Ram and three porters reached Chitkul last evening. Trekker and Portero said that one of the trekkers, Sujoy Dule, who was accompanying them, died on the spot after crossing the Khimloga Pass, while the other trekker, 49-year-old Subroto Biswas, was injured during this time. The injured trekker and three porters are still trapped in the Khimloga pass.
The Deputy Commissioner said that as soon as the information was received last evening, a 35-member team of police ITBP and Home Guard personnel was prepared to rescue the injured trekker and 3 portal safely and to bring the dead body of the deceased. Which could not leave at night due to bad weather and darkness and left at 5 am today.
Avid Hussain Sadiq told that all the three trekkers are from West Bengal, while the porters Kalyan Singh, Nain Singh, Devraj, Pradeep, Jayendra Singh are from Lewari village of Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand and Devram from Jamel village of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand, he added.
