The body of one of the 19 missing labourers was found in a river in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kurung Kumey district, an official said on Tuesday.
The labourers were engaged in the construction of the BRO’s strategic Damin-Huri Road along the India-China border. They fled from the project site on July 5 after they were denied leave for Eid by the contractor, Kurung Kumey’s deputy commissioner Nighee Bengia said.
The labourers, who hail from Assam, might have taken a different route through the jungle and it is suspected that one of them accidentally fell into the Kumey river, he said.
