The Meghalaya State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) recovered the body of a missing person from the Wahniangleng River near Phra Mer in Mylliem on July 26, bringing a four-day search operation to an end.
The body was retrieved at around 7.10 am after rescue teams resumed the operation, which had been suspended a day earlier due to strong river currents and unsafe conditions.
The search began on July 22 after authorities received information that a resident of Phra Mer had gone missing. SDRF personnel, assisted by Mawngap Police and local residents from Laitkroh and Phra Mer, conducted extensive searches in the river and surrounding gorges.
The teams also used a rubber inflatable boat to search stretches of the Wahniangleng River from Mawphlang Dam. Despite extensive operations on July 23 and 24 covering both upstream and downstream sections, the missing person could not be located.
Local residents spotted the body on July 25 in a confined section of the river. SDRF personnel immediately attempted to recover it but had to suspend the operation because of hazardous water conditions.
After the body was successfully retrieved on Sunday morning, it was handed over to Mawngap Police for legal formalities, according to a press release issued by the Directorate of Civil Defence and Home Guards, Meghalaya.
