Overview
- The victims, identified by police as Dinu, 26, and Mahadev, 24, drowned on Friday after stepping onto thin ice while trying to help a friend who had fallen in.
- A joint operation by the Indian Army, SDRF Bomdila, SSB, ITBP, and Tawang police resumed at 8 a.m. Saturday, with divers recovering the second body at about 10:10 a.m.
- Rescuers had retrieved two people on Friday, reviving one, while the rest of the seven-member Kerala group received care and shelter at nearby Army camps.
- An unnatural-death case was registered at Jung Police Station, post-mortems are under way, and authorities are preparing to hand the bodies to relatives.
- The district had issued a December advisory and installed signboards against walking on frozen lakes, and the administration is now considering barricades at Sela.