19 Labourers Missing Near India-China Border In Arunachal, Search On
NDTV
There are unconfirmed reports of the recovery of the dead body of one labourer in the Kumey river.
A search operation has been launched in Arunachal Pradesh's remote Kurung Kumey district, not very far from the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, to find a group of 19 road construction workers who went missing two weeks back from a border road construction site in Damin circle. The site is about 300 km from the state capital Itanagar.
There are unconfirmed reports of the recovery of the dead body of one labourer in the Kumey river. Teams have been sent out to verify the veracity of this information, officials said.
According to a missing complaint filed by the contractor under whom these 19 migrant labourers who had come from Assam were working, the labourers had allegedly fled the labour camps at the road construction site of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in Damin circle on July 5 after the contractor reportedly denied them leave to go back to their homes in Assam to celebrate Eid al-Adha last week.
The missing report was filed at the local police station on July 13, police sources said.
