One more body found from NEEPCO hydropower project pump room

Haflong (Assam), Oct. 23 (PTI): One more body was found on Tuesday from inside a pump house of state-run NEEPCO, two weeks after the water pipelines of the Kopili Hydroelectric project in Assam’s Dima Hasao district burst, police said. On Monday bodies of two of the four-person feared inside the pump house was recovered. A body was recovered on Tuesday evening in the disaster site inside the G minus 3 (G-2) room taking the total number of bodies recovered to three, police said. The rescue team was working round the clock to rescue the fourth person feared trapped since the bursting of the water pipelines on October 7, they said. Two pipelines had burst at around 4 am on October 7 when repairing works were on, North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) officials said.