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IMPHAL, 2 Jul:<\/strong> The toll in the landslide at a railway construction site in Manipur’s Noney district climbed to 29 on Saturday after eight more bodies were recovered from under the debris, officials said.<\/p>\n Thirty-four people are still missing after a massive landslide hit the Tupul yard railway construction camp on the night of 29 June.<\/p>\n Inclement weather is affecting the search operations, officials said.<\/p>\n Out of the eight bodies recovered during the day, five are of Territorial Army personnel and one of an employee of a construction company. The two others are yet to be identified.<\/p>\n The defence personnel were there to provide security to the construction site.<\/p>\n Eight bodies were found on Thursday and 13 yesterday, an official said.<\/p>\n He said that altogether 34 people, including 14 employees of two construction companies, five villagers and three of the railways, are still missing.<\/p>\n Eighteen people were rescued from the site on Thursday.<\/p>\n The search started at 4 am and rescue teams have been advised to proceed with caution. Rainfall since early Saturday morning has hampered the operations, the officials said.<\/p>\n Over 470 personnel, including those of the NDRF, SDRF, state police, the Assam Rifles and local volunteers, have been deployed in the search operation.<\/p>\n Over 30 excavators are being used to clear the debris which blocked the Ijai river, forming a dam-like storage and threatening the people living nearby.<\/p>\n Earthmovers have been brought in to remove the debris and create a channel to allow the flow of water from there, officials said.<\/p>\n A defence spokesperson in Guwahati said, “Through-wall radar is being successfully used. A search and rescue dog is also being employed to assist.”<\/p>\n Such radars are used for detection and location of static and moving targets, especially human beings, behind walls.<\/p>\n The spokesperson said that the bodies of 14 defence personnel, including a junior commissioned officer, were sent to their hometowns.<\/p>\n Full military honours were given to the deceased personnel in Imphal before sending the bodies to their destinations. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IMPHAL, 2 Jul: The toll in the landslide at a railway construction site in Manipur’s Noney district climbed to 29 on Saturday after eight more bodies were recovered from under the debris, officials said. Thirty-four people are still missing after a massive landslide hit the Tupul yard railway construction camp on the night of 29 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}