Manali: Five days after a group of students and teachers from Hyderabad were washed away by the Beas river in Manali, the Himachal Pradesh administration has decided to strengthen the search operations.
A special search operation would be launched on Saturday to look for the missing 17 students. The divers were able to fish out just eight bodies in the past five days.
The special force that would start the search operations on Saturday includes contingents from Army, Navy, National Disaster Response Force, SSB and state police.
A total of 600 personnel would be engaged in the search operations, out of whom about 450 jawans and divers would search for the remaining bodies in 3kms stretch towards Pandoh dam.
About 60 students and faculty members of the VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology of Hyderabad were on an excursion to Manali when 25 members of the group were swept away in the river following the sudden release of water from the reservoir of the Larji hydropower project near Thalot.
More than 550 rescue workers from various agencies are searching for the missing persons with the search parties focusing their efforts on the 20-km stretch from Thalot to Pandoh .
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