‘Wandering’ in woods for days, 8 of 19 missing men found fortnight after they left BRO project | North East India News,The Indian Express
Ten workers are still “missing”, despite IAF-requisitioned aircraft making two search rounds on Friday — the labourers rescued have, meanwhile, said that three of their colleagues died over the last fortnight.
Seventeen days after they fled a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) construction project in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kurung Kumey district, eight of 19 labourers were located between Friday and Saturday.
On Friday, four were found near the road construction project, after “wandering in the dense forests for days”, officials said.
Late Friday night, three more workers were rescued by SDRF and police. The eighth labourer was rescued on Saturday evening.
The Sarli-Huri road construction project, now nearing completion, is about 90 km from the India-China border.
Ten workers are still “missing”, despite IAF-requisitioned aircraft making two search rounds on Friday — the labourers rescued have, meanwhile, said that three of their colleagues died over the last fortnight. “They said that two of them fell into the river, and one person died while resting on a stone,” Kurung Kumey Deputy Commissioner, Nighee Bengia, said.
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