Eight of the 19 construction workers from Assam missing for at least 10 days in Arunachal Pradesh have been found by rescue teams but they are not in good health, officials said on Saturday.
Some of the rescued labourers have said three among the remaining 11 had died. The search-and-rescue operation has been scaled up to find the remaining labourers with the deployment of an air force chopper.
The labourers hail from six lower Assam districts and were working on the Border Road Organisation’s Sarli-Huri road project under the Damin circle of Kurung Kumey district, about 90km from the China border and 365km from Arunachal capital Itanagar.
