Overview

• The surge hit around 3 p.m. Thursday at the Dolatpura weir plant in Mahisagar, where 15 workers were in a maintenance well and five were swept away as ten escaped.
• Rescuers recovered the body of wireman Naresh Solanki on Friday evening; four workers — Shailesh Raiji Macchi, Shailesh Raman Macchi, Bharat Akhma Padariya and Arvind Damor — remain untraced.
• NDRF, SDRF and fire brigades have deployed scuba divers and underwater cameras, but the roughly 60-foot-deep, oil-polluted water offers little visibility and pumping has not helped.
• Continued releases from Kadana dam, reported to have increased from 3 lakh to a projected 4.5 lakh cusec, are complicating the search.
• Police say the inrush appears accidental and have begun recording statements for a probe into protocol compliance and possible negligence at the AEPL-operated 12 MW plant, where the missing are contractual hires.