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  • Himachal tragedy :-5 bodies, survivors flown back to Hyderabad

    Four of the five bodies retrieved have been identified so far while efforts were on to trace the 19 missing students.
    A special flight carrying 24 students who survived the river tragedy in Himachal Pradesh reached Hyderabad on Monday night while bodies of five victims were flown in a defence aircraft.

    According to sources, rescue workers have so far retrieved five bodies and four of them were identified. Efforts were on to trace the 19 missing students.

    The students of V.N.R. Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology in Hyderabad were washed away in Beas river that saw a flash flood after the release of water from a hydropower project.

    A group of 48 students from the engineering college were on a picnic to Himachal Pradesh when the tragedy struck.

    The governments of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh swung into action to provide relief to the families of the victims.

    P. Narayana, a minister from Andhra Pradesh, left for Himachal Pradesh along with 46 parents of the missing students by a special flight arranged by the state government. The flight landed in Chandigarh and from there they were being taken to Mandi district.

    Telangana Home Minister N. Narasimha Reddy has already reached Himachal Pradesh along with top officials to monitor rescue and relief operations.

    Earlier, parents of 15 students left for Delhi by Air India flight. The Telangana government also made arrangements for their travel to Chandigarh and from there to Mandi.

    Telangana Chief Secretary Ajay Mishra has urged the union home ministry and defence ministry to arrange aircraft to bring the bodies to Hyderabad and also facilitate travel of parents of the missing students to Himachal from Chandigarh.
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