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Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n ITANAGAR, 22 Jul:<\/strong> The bodies of four people from Assam, who had gone missing in between Dirang and Bhalukpong on 19 July, were found in a deep gorge near Saddle, 3 kms from Nechiphu, in West Kameng district, on Friday.<\/p>\n They were members of different motorcycle riding clubs of Assam, and were travelling in a Volkswagen car (AS01-BP-0605) from Dirang to Assam in the evening when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n The West Kameng police informed that the riders had arrived in Dirang on 18 July and, after spending a night there, left in the evening for Assam.<\/p>\n “The car, which was completely damaged, along with the bodies were found in a deep gorge near a riverbank a few kilometres ahead of Sessa waterfalls near Bhalukpong,” West Kameng SP Sangey Norbu said.<\/p>\n Two bodies were retrieved by the police on Friday. However, because of the steepness of the gorge and failing light, the operation was suspended and will resume on Saturday.<\/p>\n “The area witnesses heavy fog, and their car might have skidded off the road due to it,” the SP said.<\/p>\n The exact cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained, he added.<\/p>\n The deceased have been identified as Nayan Basumatari (30) and Bedanta Bormahela (30) – both from Nagaon district of Assam – Hirak Boro (32) from Sonapur in Kamrup district, and Sanjiv Das (34), of Rangapara in Sonitpur district.<\/p>\n It is learnt that family members and relatives of the deceased have arrived to oversee the retrieval operation. (With PTI input)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 22 Jul: The bodies of four people from Assam, who had gone missing in between Dirang and Bhalukpong on 19 July, were found in a deep gorge near Saddle, 3 kms from Nechiphu, in West Kameng district, on Friday. They were members of different motorcycle riding clubs of Assam, and were travelling […]<\/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-196110","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\/196110","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=196110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}