Tag: Jeypore Landslide

Rourkela: The  team engaged in rescue operations at the Rourkela Steel Plant today fished out two more bodies from the plant’s discharge tunnel taking the total death toll to four. The retrieved bodies are yet to be identified. As the operation spanned on to the seventh day today, officials of the Rourkela police, Odisha Disaster […]

Jeypore: The body of the JCB operator, trapped inside the stone quarry near Bariput since May 31, was recovered after 14 days of rescue operation today. The deceased has been identified as Ghanashyam Guru. Though the body of Guru, a resident of Deogarh, was first spotted on June 10, the rescue team was able to […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when efforts to rescue two labourers trapped inside a stone quarry near Bariput in Jeypore district are still on, the Odisha Contractors’ Association on Saturday alleged that no action has been taken against the owner of the company so far as he has the support of some influential people belonging to […]

Rescue operations to pull out the two labourers trapped under debris at the Bariput stone quarry in Jeypore continued for the sixth consecutive day today. While the ODRAF team and Fire Services personnel have continued the rescue work since the past five days, an NDRF team joined them last evening.

Koraput: Close on the heels of the tragic Jeypore landslide incident in which two trapped labourers are still missing under debris, one person was killed while another sustained critical injuries in another such mishap after an explosion at a stone quarry in Jharsuguda on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Suresh Kisan while another […]

Koraput: A massive operation is now underway at Bariput as two labourers are feared trapped under the debris that gathered after portion of a hill collapsed during stone mining on Thursday night. The incident occurred when the labourers were carrying out mining activities for the Telengiri irrigation project. Two JCB machines reportedly are lying under […]