11 trekkers missing on HP-Uttrakhand trekking route

As may as 11 trekkers were missing on trekking route in between HP-UK border as they could not arrived at their schedule expedition at Chitkul village of Kinnaur district of Himachal , deputy commissioner Kinnaur Abid Husain Sadik said here today.
As par information Eight trekkers and three cook left for Chhitkul from Harsil of Uttarakhand on Oct 11 who are scheduled to arrived here on Oct 19 but they didn’t arrived here and could not contacted sofar, deputy commissioner Kinnaur said.
He said that trekkers likely to be stranded on Lakhwaga pass are not traceable sofar. We would update the information as soon as possible after finding their where about on the high altitude.
As par information received from the Devendera Patwal, officer of Uttrakhand District Diastar Management since they could not traceable they alerted district administration Kinnaur.
Seven trekkers belonged to Kolkata and one from New Delhi likely to be trace with help of helicopter by the SDRF and Rescue team. 
The assistance of ITBP is being taken in this regard.
 Deputy commissioner said that a Rescue team of ITBP was left for Lakhwaga pass at 0430hrs today.
An Army Helicopter from Uttarakhand also  assisting to trace them and take part in rescue operation, DC said.
SDRF identified the stranded trekkers  as  Mithun Dari (31), Tanmay Tiwari (30), Vikash Makal (33), Saurav Ghosh (34), Saviayan Das (28), Richard Mandal (30), and Suken Manjhi (43), all from Kolkata and Anita Rawat (38yrs) hails to Delhi.
Devendra (37), Gyan Chandra (33) and Upendra (32), belonged to Purola area of Uttarkashi and engaged for cooking by the trekkers also missing.
Both the state witnessed heavy rain and unseasonal snowfal with thunderstorm as 15 People are already killed in Uttrakhand due to flash flood.
District Emergency Operation Centre Kinnaur said that heavy snowfall also reported between Oct 17 to 18 on the high reaches of Kinnaur likely to be stranded the missing trekkers but there is no information about them sofar.
It is worth while to mention that Chitkul is last bordering village on India-Sino border and it is adjoining to Uttrakhand towards South.