An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was pressed into service to trace 17 missing engineering students from Hyderabad but without any success. Rescuers will now deploy for the first time a multi-beam echo-sounder in Beas river whose level will be lowered to minimum.
A special search operation will be launched for tracing the missing students by lowering the water level to the minimum. 450 out of 600 jawans engaged in rescue operations will conduct special search operations in a 3-km stretch towards Pandoh Dam. Divers and contingents from Army, state police, Navy, National Disaster Response Force and SSB would participate in the hi-tech operation in which “echo-sounder” for above-water and under-water search would be used for the first time
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Twenty five members of the group from VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology of Hyderabad, who were on an excursion to Manali, were swept away in the river after sudden release of water from the reservoir of the Larji hydro-power project.
