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Jyotirmath:
Gopal Joshi, one of 55 construction workers housed in containers near Mana, came out expecting a morning sheathed in silence like every day. What he met with was a roaring cascade of snow coming right at them with a ferocious speed. The avalanche, common in winter in the area, eventually left the site in a state of ruin, and the workers plodding in thick snow to outrun a veritable entombment.
Fifty workers were rescued, while four of them died on Saturday.
Joshi, a native of Narayanbagar in Chamoli district, had been operating an accelerator machine for the last several months. The group was employed at a BRO camp by Vijay Infra Construction Company.
It all happened in a jiffy, Joshi, who was admitted for treatment along with his 22 colleagues in the Army's Jyotirmath hospital, recalled.
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