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Authorities have restricted entry to Sonprayag-Munkatiya highway. Search operations are ongoing for victims of a latest bus accident, with 4 confirmed lifeless.
Pilgrims who have been caught after landslides on Sonprayag-Munkatia trek, on Kedarnath route, being rescued, in Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (PTI)
The highway, which serves as base level for pilgrims touring to Kedarnath, was obstructed solely for the motion of passengers as a consequence of steady particles and stones falling close to Sonprayag shuttle bridge and within the sliding zone space close to Munkatiya.
Kedarnath Dham Yatra pilgrims have been stopped at Sonprayag and Gaurikund for security causes, and when the particles was cleared, the motion of pilgrims was allowed once more, Rudraprayag Police stated in an announcement. The opening and shutting of the highway is being managed, and the motion of passengers is being ensured with additional warning by the involved working company, administrative officers and police.
According to an announcement by Rudraprayag Police as a consequence of steady rain and particles falling from the hill above, there have been difficulties in opening the highway at each these locations.
When the highway turned clean, they have been despatched on the Kedarnath Dham Yatra route, and people coming back from Gaurikund have been introduced in direction of Sonprayag.
The district police have appealed to the pilgrims coming to the Kedarnath Dham to come back on the Kedarnath Dham Yatra with additional warning and monitor the climate forecast.
Meanwhile, search and rescue operation continued on the second day on the Alaknanda River at the moment for lacking individuals within the bus accident wherein 4 individuals died in Rudraprayag on Thursday
The loss of life toll rose to 4 on Thursday after the physique of a lacking passenger was recovered close to the Srinagar dam in Pauri Garhwal, round 40 kilometres from the accident website.
State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) Inspector Manjari Negi stated {that a} physique of one other deceased passenger within the Rudraprayag bus accident has been discovered floating close to the dam in Srinagar. The deceased has been recognized as Gauri Soni.
The SDRF, assisted by the SSB, has deployed a number of groups alongside key factors of the Alaknanda River.
“As soon as our team received this information, we all gathered here. One team of the SSB is also present. We divided the team into three parts–one near Goa Beach, one near Dhari Devi, and one on the dam. We have split the SSB team into these three sections and are constantly searching with binoculars and ourselves. Whatever we find here, we will recover. We have OVM and rafts. If anyone sees something, we will recover it,” Negi added.
According to officers, the bus, which was travelling from Rudraprayag to Badrinath, collided with an oncoming automobile within the Gholtir space and fell right into a 300-metre-deep gorge earlier than touchdown within the Alaknanda River.
