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

Officials say at least 25 construction workers are trapped after a large group of them was swept away by an avalanche near India’s border with Tibet.

No fewer than 41 people are still trapped following an avalanche in the Indian Himalayan mountain state of Uttarakhand after recent heavy snowfall in the region. Authorities said that the avalanche occurred near a highway in the state’s Chamoli region,