No trace of 120 people at a North Sikkim village
PTI | 07:09 PM,Sep 21,2011Army and district administration's helicopters were doing sorties not only to evacuate people, but to bring the injured to the hospitals at Gangtok and Mangan and airdrop food items.At least 200 persons were airlifted from Chungthang to Saffo and Gangtok during the day, included tourists and employees of Air Infrastructure Construction Private limited, which was working in Teesta Urja project in North district.According to a senior geologist of the company Sautik Basu, the employees had been shifted to Saffo from the project site which had been rendered inaccessible.The tunnel under construction had been flooded raising fears that some bodies might lie trapped inside.Basu said there was no electricity, no food, no drinking water at the project site.
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