Jeypore: The Army will use dynamite to blow up the boulders and recover bodies of the two JCB operators trapped under a heap of boulders at the hill near Bariput village in Koraput district.
This was decided at a meeting of the Revenue Divisional Commissioner, Southern Division, Temjen Wapang Ao, Inspector General, Fire Services and Home Guard, Rajesh Kumar, senior officials of Army engineering team, Koraput Collector K Sudarshan Chakraborty and the
Superintendent of Police at the district headquarters Tuesday evening.
The Army, which had conducted experimental blasting of the boulders using dynamite Tuesday evening, will conduct a series of blasts
Wednesday to recover the bodies of the two trapped operators.
Though they had located the body of an operator a couple of days ago, heavy rains made it difficult to bring it out.
The two JCB operators, Ghanashyam Guru of Deogarh and Sanjay Dash of Athagarh area in Cuttack district, were engaged in excavating boulders for the ongoing Telengiri Irrigation project near Bariput village when a portion of the hill caved in May 31.
PNN