Several bodies have already been recovered, One witness said a wall of dust, rock and water hit as an avalanche rolled down the Rishi Ganga valley deep in the mountains of Butorac hand.

Many of those missing are workers at the Rishi Ganga hydro electric project, which was destroyed.

12 people who had been trapped in a tunnel had been rescued and efforts were under way to save others court in another, according to the Federal Home Ministry, local Puran Singh Rana saw the disaster.

E was looking up and down and I could not see anything.

But five minutes later I witnessed something that looked like a scene for a Bollywood film.

I've never seen anything like what I saw.

The Rishi Ganga plant.

About 50 to 100 people were running for their lives but could not be saved.

They were engulfed by the river.

It was not immediately clear what had set off the avalanche outside of flood season, but it Iraq hand is prone to flash floods and landslides on environmental groups, have now called for a review of power projects in the ecologically sensitive mountains It.