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About 60 radical were injured a loco bid carrying workers and officials collided with a goods bid wrong Pipalkoti passageway of the Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project passageway successful Uttarakhand's Chamoli territory precocious Tuesday (December 30, 2025) evening, officials said.
Chamoli District Magistrate Gaurav Kumar said that determination were a full of 109 radical connected the bid astatine the clip of the accident, which occurred precocious successful the evening, and 60 of them were injured.
He said that each the radical person been rescued and information of each the injured is stable.
The DM said that 1 bid carrying radical and different carrying materials were moving wrong the Pipalkoti passageway of the project, being constructed by THDC (India), erstwhile they collided.
According to officials, loco trains are utilized wrong tunnels for the proscription of workers, officials, and materials for operation work.
The Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Chamoli said that 10 injured radical person been sent to the territory infirmary successful Gopeshwar for treatment.
This 444-megawatt hydroelectric task is being built connected the Alaknanda River betwixt Helang and Pipalkoti successful Chamoli district. The task is to make 111 megawatts of energy done 4 turbines. It is targeted to beryllium completed by adjacent year.
