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A tourer from Tripura, who went missing successful Nagaland’s Dzükou Valley connected January 4, was recovered dormant connected Friday (February 6, 2026) night, officials said.
Firefighters combating the ongoing wildfire successful Dzükou Valley, a fashionable trekking destination straddling Manipur and Nagaland, recovered the assemblage of Pranab Das, a nonmigratory of West Tripura district.
Zasitolie Beio, the president of Southern Angami Youth Organisation, said the assemblage was recovered from a determination supra a cave adjacent Jakhama camp, an country not typically utilized by trekkers. The radical monitors tourer activities successful the area.
The organisation’s members began an probe aft the missing idiosyncratic lawsuit was reported connected January 13. They recovered that Das reported astatine the Dzükou ticketing antagonistic successful Viswema connected January 4, confirming that helium took the trekking way but did not scope the Dzükou Valley basal camp.
Members of the radical subsequently launched a search-and-rescue cognition on with the section police, Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority personnel, members of the Southern Angami Tour Guide Council, and villagers from the area.
The missing man’s father, brother, and uncle joined the hunt from January 13 to 16, and the cognition was called disconnected connected January 17, aft covering each known and utilized routes.
Firefighters came into the representation successful the past week of January erstwhile a wildfire broke out. The vale is prone to wildfires, and ample swathes are affected astir each year.
