More than 40 construction workers were missing after an avalanche in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on Friday following heavy snowfall, officials said.

Rescuers on Saturday morning resumed the search for trapped BRO workers in the high-altitude Mana village in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district. PM Modi has taken stock of the situation.

Authorities say at least 25 people remain trapped after avalanche hits a work camp, burying dozens under the snow.

Fifty workers have been pulled out of snow brought in by an avalanche at a BRO camp in the high-altitude Mana village in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, but four of them died on Saturday as rescuers raced against time to save the remaining five labourers.

A Border Roads Organisation (BRO) worker died and 49 were pulled out alive from the snow that engulfed a BRO camp in the high-altitude Mana village in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district as rescuers raced against time to find survivors on Saturday,

At least four workers have died after an avalanche swept away a large construction crew working on a road near India’s mountainous border with Tibet, the army said. The incident happened near the Mana Pass in northern Uttarakhand state on Friday,