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Photos: Rescuers make final push in Uttarakhand

Improved weather saw rescue teams launch a decisive push to evacuate the remaining 1,000 stranded pilgrims from Badrinath in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand on Friday.

Indian Air Force helicopters began sorties from Dehradun early morning as the rescue operations entered Day 11, which officials indicated could see completion of the "job".  Even as 20 choppers including the IAF's Mi-17s and private ones were pressed into service, fog around the Joshimath airbase put operations on hold.

Authorities in Rudraprayag district geared up for a fresh bout of cremations at Kedarnath, where 33 bodies have been consigned to flames in the last two days. Officials fear nearly 200 bodies could be under debris in Kedarnath alone.

Though the official death toll in the calamity is 560, the Uttarakhand government has admitted to the possibility that thousands may have been killed in disaster that struck on June 16.

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