Search teams in northern India on Saturday attempted to rescue 22 workers believed to be trapped after an avalanche hit a remote border area, officials and local media said.<\/p>\n
The workers were buried under snow and debris after the avalanche hit a construction camp near a village on the border with Tibet in Chamoli district on Friday.<\/p>\n
Uttarakhand state Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said, \u201cRelief and rescue operations have been accelerated\u201d with the weather in the area clearing up.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery effort is being made to safely evacuate all the workers trapped in the snow as soon as possible,\u201d Dhami said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
Police said the snow buried 55 workers initially.<\/p>\n
Army doctors at the site performed life-saving surgery on those critically injured.<\/p>\n
Mana village, which shares a border with Tibet, was deserted after residents moved to lower altitudes to escape the extreme weather, The Indian Express newspaper reported.<\/p>\n
Avalanches and landslides are common in the upper reaches of the Himalayas, especially during the winter season.<\/p>\n
Scientists have said that climate change, spurred by humans burning fossil fuels, is making weather events more severe, supercharged by warmer oceans.<\/p>\n
The increased pace of development in the fragile Himalayan regions has also heightened fears about the fallout from deforestation and construction.<\/p>\n
In 2021, nearly 100 people died in Uttarakhand after a huge glacier chunk fell into a river, triggering flash floods.<\/p>\n
And devastating monsoon floods and landslides in 2013 killed 6,000 people and led to calls for a review of development projects in the state.<\/p>\n
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