Seventeen days after they allegedly fled from a road construction site near the Indo-China border, 7 of the 19 missing workers from Assam were found on Friday inside a dense forest in Kurung Kumey district of Arunachal Pradesh, officials said on Saturday, the 23rd of July.

The workers have been brought to a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) medical facility where they are under treatment. Their health conditions are stated to be stable. Meanwhile, the Indian Air Force (IAF) started an air survey on Saturday morning to locate the other 12 missing workers.

The workers, employed by a private contractor at a BRO road construction site at Huri in Damin circle of the district, fled from their work site on July 5 after they were reportedly denied permission to visit their families in Assam for Eid-al-Adha celebrations.

“Local villagers in Damin first found four of the missing workers and later traced three others inside a deep forest nearly 20-25 km from their work site in Huri,” said Karan Kholie, district disaster management officer of Kurung Kumey over the phone from Koloriang, the district headquarters.

Notably, the work site at Huri is located around 109 km away from Koloriang, which is 249 km from the state capital Itanagar. It is located around 80-90 km from the India-China border.

Stay tuned for further updates.

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