On the fourth day after the devastating landslip at Toupul in Noney district of Manipur, rescue teams used sniffer dogs to locate the bodies of missing Territorial Army personnel and workers at an under construction railway station and tribal village.
The death toll rose to 38 on Sunday with the recovery of three more bodies. Among them are 24 Territorial Army personnel and 13 civilians, a defence spokesperson said in Guwahati. The bodies of seven Territorial Army personnel were sent to their hometowns — Kolkata and Bagdogra in West Bengal, and Agartala in Tripura — on Sunday. Full military honours were given to them at Imphal, he said.
Heavy rains and fresh landslides in the Toupul area since Saturday night have affected the search operations.
