Kedarnath Floods 2013: Survivor reunited with family after six years

Jan 03, 2020

Sitarganj (Uttarakhand), Jan 03 (ANI): This New Year has brought good news for Ansari family, who is living in Uttarakhand’s Sitarganj in Udham Singh Nagar district. The family was living in a grief that their head of the family Jameel Ahmed Ansari passed away in 2013 due to Kedarnath floods. For six years, wife of Jameel Ahmed Ansari, had been leading the life of a widow. The Ansari’s family got good news on the last day of 2019, when they got a video call of Jameel Ahmed Ansari from Chamoli. Jameel Ansari had been located by police during the ‘Operation Smile’ conducted by them and living in a shelter home at Gopeshwar in Chamoli. Ansari was living at the shelter home for the past few years. ‘Operation Smile’ was an operation by police to trace missing persons. With the continuous efforts by the police the 65-year-old was reunited with his family on New Year’s Day.