Rescue operation continues after landslide in Kahilipara

A search and rescue team of first battalion NDRF consisting of Santosh Kumar Singh, Assistant Commandant along with Senior Medical Officer, as many as 38 rescuers carried out search and rescue operations in landslide incident at Kahilipara.

After reaching the incident site the team initially stabilized the partially damaged structure by shoring. The victim Bharat Kalita, whose lower extremities was trapped under a heavy concrete boulder was given assurance and immediately administered Oxygen & intravenous fluid by the NDRF doctor.

The heavy boulder under which the victim was trapped was slowly and carefully chipped off so that the victim could be freed without injury and the partially damaged structure also do not destabilize.

The NDRF rescuers finally succeeded in creating a gap and freed the lower extremities of the trapped victim. The victim was immediately evacuated and transported to Hayat Hospital, Guwahati under the supervision of NDRF doctor for advance medical treatment.