A 24-hour avalanche warning has been issued for areas over 3,000 metres from sea level in Chamoli, Rudraprayag, and Pithogarh districts of Uttarakhand<\/a>.<\/p>\n The warning – issued by the Chandigarh-based Defence Geoinformatics Research Establishment, or DGRE, – includes an ‘orange’ alert for these and a ‘yellow’ alert for Uttarkashi district, which borders Chamoli and Rudraprayag. Three districts in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh – Chamba, Lahaul Spiti, and Kullu Kinnaur – also face an ‘orange’ alert.<\/p>\n A ‘yellow’ alert is in place for areas in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including Ganderbal, Baramulla, Kupwara, Rajouri, and Poonch in the former and Kargil in the latter.<\/p>\n The warning comes a week after a Border Roads Organisation labourers’ camp in Chamoli was buried by an avalanche. Nearly 60 people were in the camp at the time. Eight were killed.<\/p>\n READ |\u00a0<\/strong>Worker’s Body Recovered, Uttarakhand Avalanche Toll At 8<\/a><\/p>\n The camp was at a height of 3,200 metres above sea level, where minimum temperatures were as low as -12 degrees Celsius, hampering rescue and recovery efforts. Over 200 personnel from state and central disaster response agencies and the Army and Air Force worked non-stop.<\/p>\n