The Indian army announced today, Saturday, the death of at least four workers, after a ice collapse, a large construction crew, was working on a highway near the Indian mountainous border with Tibet. The accident occurred, on Friday, in the Mana Pass Pass area in the state of Utarkhand in northern India, where 55 workers were suspended under the ice, before rescue teams were able to retrieve 50 of them, four later died of their injuries, according to the Indian army statement. Search operations are still ongoing for five missing workers, as rescue teams, supported by military helicopters, are still combing the site of the accident. The Indian army did not specify the number of injured people, but it confirmed that granted the maximum priority for medical evacuation. The local authorities reported that some workers were seriously injured, and they were transferred to the hospital for treatment. She pointed out that the majority of the relevant workers are immigrants who were working to expand a highway, as part of a project to construct a 50 -kilometer road, linking the Indian village of Mana to the Mana Bass border corridor with Tibet. The Himalayas is one of the sensitive environmental areas, which is exposed to increasing risks due to global warming, which makes it vulnerable to frequent icy collapses. In 2022, the region witnessed a similar catastrophe, which killed 22 climbers trained in ice collapse in Autarkand.
