Wildfires continue to ravage various forest regions of Uttarakhand, with the recent loss of life being that of an elderly woman, bringing the total death toll to five. According to officials, the 65-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries at AIIMS Rishikesh on Sunday. She was reportedly hospitalised after sustaining burns while trying to quell a forest fire encroaching upon her farm in a village in Pauri tehsil.
In another incident on Friday, three Nepali labourers, all aged 30 and affiliated with a pine resin factory in Syunrakot, Almora, lost their lives due to a forest fire near their workplace.
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