Bodies of five Assamese laborers went missing in Arunachal Pradesh, along with 19 others found in a dense forest in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kurung Kaumey district.
The rescue teams have found the decomposed bodies in the dense forest between Huri and Tapa areas.
Deputy commissioner of Kurung Kumey Nighee Bengia said – 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. One Hikmat Ali was drowned in the Furak river. With this, the total number of deaths increased to six.
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The laborers, who were from Assam, had fled the remote road construction site at Damin circle, 200 kms 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 then set out for their homes on foot in two groups of eight and 11 and have been missing since then.
The rescued laborers are Khairul Islam (26), Majidul Ali (30), Monohar Hussain (18), Inamul Hussain (18), Jainal Ali (45), Hamidul Hussain, Abdul Amin, Ibrahim Ali, Kholebuddin Shiek (27) and Shamidul Sheik (19), he added.
