Fifty-seven labourers from the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) were trapped under an avalanche near the border village of Mana in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Friday, officials said.
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The avalanche buried a camp of the Border Roads Organisation between Mana and Badrinath, Chamoli District Magistrate Sandeep Tiwari said.
Mana is the last village on the India-Tibet border at a height of 3,200 metres.
Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) have left for the spot amid continuing snowfall and rain.