Chamoli, March 2 -- The Indian Army on Sunday said that three more bodies have been recovered and that one worker continued to be missing after the avalanche hit the site of a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) project in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Friday.

With this, the death toll in the incident has gone up to seven. Four workers died on Saturday.

Bodies of BRO workers retrieved from the avalanche site airlifted today and brought to Joshimath military hospital

There were 54 workers at the site when the avalanche struck early on the morning of February 28.

Personnel of the Army, ITBP, Air Force, NDRF, SDRF are all participating in the rescue operations that have been going on for the past two days.

In Dehradun, PRO Defence Lt Co...