Bengaluru: After six days of rescue operations for a Kerala truck driver, Arjun, who is suspected to be trapped under the earth after a landslide in Angola in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada, the search has been extended to the Gangavali river, where mud fell after the landslides, on Sunday. The Karnataka government informed us that 98 percent of the soil on the national highway has been removed and the truck driver is still not found.

Two Karnataka residents are also missing after a landslide. The army had stepped in to lead the rescue operation with a 40-member team led by Major Abhishek. Later, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who had not been present at the site for the past six days, also arrived at the spot.

It was learnt that ISRO would provide satellite images of the accident site for rescue operations.

It was hoped that the location of the truck could be found through the satellite images and the rescue operations could be centralized. Earlier, a search was made using radar in the area of ​​the massive landslide, but no definitive signals were received to confirm the presence of the truck. The rescue operation was carried out today based on the radar signal, but in vain. The signal, which could have been from the machine parts, was received in the large mound of earth, 6 meters high, that had formed in the middle of the highway after the landslide. The Karnataka government explained that the truck did not move from the spot where the signal was received.

It was on Tuesday that Arjun’s truck got stuck in the landslide. However, the Karnataka government intensified the rescue operations only on Friday, after the intervention of the Kerala government.