5 Assam labourers' bodies found in Arunachal

Itanagar: The bodies of five Assam labourers, who were among the 19 workers missing for a fortnight from a road construction site in Arunachal Pradesh's Kurung Kumey district, were found in a dense forest, a senior district official said on Friday.

Rescue teams found the five decomposed bodies in the dense forest between Huri and Tapa in the last couple of days, Kurung Kumey Deputy Commissioner Nighee Bengia said.

The DC said that according to the rescued labourers, the bodies were that of Forizul Haque, Moijal Haque, Sohar Ali and Abul Hussain. The fifth body is yet to be identified. The five decomposed bodies could not, however, be brought back.

The bodies were found in different locations and on different dates - one on July 25, three on July 26 and one on July 28, Bengia said.

With the recovery of the five bodies, the number of deaths in the incident rose to six, he said.

One Hikmat Ali earlier drowned in the river Furak, Bengia said.

The Deputy Commissioner said that he has directed the police, SDRF and local teams to continue the search operation till the remaining three missing labourers are found dead or alive.

So far ten labourers were rescued in disoriented condition and are recuperating in health facilities, Bengia said.

The labourers had fled the remote road construction site under the Damin circle, 200 km from the district headquarters of Koloriang on the Indo-China border, on July 5 after they were denied leave to go home during Eid. They had set out for their homes on foot in two groups of eight and 11 and have been missing since then.

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