SRINAGAR: The body of a missing foreman from Doda district has been recovered from the flash flood-hit Joshimath area in Uttarakhand on Sunday.

Jitender Kumar Kotwal

Reports quoting officials said that Jitender Kumar Kotwal was among two persons from the Jammu and Kashmir who had gone missing after the calamity struck the Joshinath area in Chamoli district last week.

Earlier, the body of an engineer Basharat Ahmad Zargar a resident of Srinagar, was found at the disaster-hit site on February 12.

According to officials the body of Kotwal, a resident of Bhara Seri village of Doda, has been recovered and identified by his relatives.

Kotwal was working as a foreman at Rishiganga hydel project and had left his village one and a half months back to join his work, he said.

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