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Nine bodies have been recovered so far from the Ramban tunnel collapse, with one person still missing

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So far, five bodies have been recovered from the rubble of an under-construction tunnel that collapsed on Thursday in Ramban, Jammu and Kashmir. After a section of a tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway caved in, large-scale rescue operations by police, the Army, and state and national disaster response forces were launched.

“So far, a total of five bodies have been discovered. We’re waiting for the operation to finish so we can find the other five. Three bodies have been discovered, all of which were from Bengal. We’ve made contact with the Bengal government “Mussarat Islam, a district official in Ramban, confirmed this.

A body was discovered under a boulder earlier today, according to a senior district police officer, and heavy machinery was used to recover the body.

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“Another body was discovered… The boulder was removed using machines… We’re almost done with this rescue mission “Senior Superintendent of Police (Ramban), Mohita Sharma, stated.

The first body, a Bengali labourer, was discovered on Friday.

At 10.15 p.m. on Thursday, the audit tunnel of T3 on the highway near Khooni Nallah in Ramban district caved in.

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