New Delhi: The bodies of seven soldiers, who were lost after their patrol along the border with China in Arunachal Pradesh were hit by snow avalanches on Sunday morning, found on Tuesday.
The army has launched the main search and rescue operation, with special rescue teams and equipment flown to the area at an altitude of 14,500 feet along the actual control line in the West Kameng Regency of the country, as soon as the army was reported missing early on Sunday.
“The body of the seven individuals has recovered from a snow landslide site.
Unfortunately, regardless of the best efforts of all the people involved, the seventh has been confirmed to die,” said an Army officer on Tuesday.
The body was being moved from the landslide area, who had witnessed bad weather with heavy snowfall in the past few days, for the nearest army medical facility for further formalities, he added.
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More than 1,000 Indian soldiers, including more than 35 officers, have lost their lives in the Ridge Glacier-Saltoro area since April 1984, with around three quarters of these victims due to heavy fields and climate conditions there rather than enemy fires.
The soldiers deployed in high altitude areas were given previous training in mountain crafts, ice crafts and survival to overcome all possibilities such as snow landslides.
“But despite the best efforts in training, equipment and forecasting, sometimes it can’t fight nature,” another official said.
The army, in fact, last year set the ball rolled over the procurement of 20 new avalanches, with a handheld detector, from abroad to ensure it could quickly find soldiers buried under the snow in natural areas in nature altitude.
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