Officials in India say more than 40 construction workers are missing after an avalanche hit their camp in Uttarakhand state.

Search teams in northern India on Saturday attempted to rescue 22 workers believed to be trapped after an avalanche hit a remote border area, officials and local media said. The workers were buried under snow and debris after the avalanche hit a construction camp near a village on the border with Tibet in Chamoli district on Friday.

A tragic snow avalanche has occurred in the state of Uttarakhand, India, burying many people. Rescue services are conducting intensive operations to reach the victims. At least 57 people have been trapped under a snow avalanche that descended on a national highway in Badrinath Dham,

As many as 47 workers engaged in road construction got trapped under huge blocks of snow as a massive avalanche hit Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Friday.The construction workers of the Border Roads Organisation camp were engaged in work on the border area of Mana village in Badrinath,