64 people from Uttar Pradesh are still missing almost a week after the floods in the Chamoli district in Uttarakhand, a government official said on Saturday.
So far, five people from the state have been pronounced dead and 23 others have been tracked, said Sanjay Goyal, UP Relief Commissioner.
The majority of the missing belong to the Lakhimpur Kheri district (30) on the Indian-Nepalese border in the Terai region, followed by Saharanpur (10), Shravasti (5) and Gorakhpur (4).
Two each of Rae Bareli and Kushinagar are missing. In each of these districts one person is missing: Sonbhadra, Shahjahanpur, Moradabad, Mirzapur, Mathura, Gautam Buddga Nagar, Deoria, Chandauli, Bulandshar, Azamgarh and Amroha.
The dead were identified as Awadesh, 19; Vimlesh, 22; and Suraj, 20, from Lakhimpur Kheri; Ajay Sharma, 32, from Aligarh and Vicky Kumar from Saharanpur.
While the bodies of Awadesh, Suraj, Ajay Sharma and Vicky Kumar were being returned to their hometowns and cremated, the body was being transported by Vimlesh, Goyal said.
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