Uttarakhand avalanche toll rises to 15

Three people are still missing and efforts are on to locate them.

The death toll in an avalanche at Sumna near the Indo-China border in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district rose to 15 on Monday with the recovery of three more bodies, an official said. Three people are still missing and efforts are on to locate them, Chamoli Disaster Management Officer N K Joshi said. Sumna, where the avalanche occurred on Friday, is located near the confluence of the Girthigad and Kiogad, two streams that originate from the Dhauli Ganga river, which witnessed a calamitous avalanche in February, killing 80 people and leaving 126 missing.