Beas tragedy: Rescuers recover 3 more bodies

Mandi: Three more bodies were recovered from Beas river on Sunday, fourteen days after 25 people, including 24 engineering students from Hyderabad, were swept away in the river on 8 June, taking the number of those found to 16. Rescuers recovered the bodies which surfaced in Pandoh Dam, and the three were identified as Bairinene Ritwik, C H Parmeshwar and Muppidi Kiran Kumar, Mandi superintendent of police, R S Negi said. [caption id=“attachment_1583445” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Representational image. PTI[/caption] With this, 16 bodies have been recovered. Nine more people, including three girls and a co-tour Prahlad, are to be found. Massive search operations, aided by advanced technology, were launched to locate 24 BTech students of VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, and a tour leader, who were washed away in Beas river on June 8 after sudden release of water from the reservoir of the Larji hydropower project near Thalot. About 600 rescue personnel of NDRF, Army, police, ITBP and 40 expert divers continued the search on Sunday. PTI