Jammu LG lauds TMR for saving troops, civilians from avalanches
Anindya Sengupta interacted with the Tiranga Mountain Rescue Team led by Colonel Satish Sharma (Retd) and 21 members at Udhampur.
Anindya Sengupta interacted with the Tiranga Mountain Rescue Team led by Colonel Satish Sharma (Retd) and 21 members at Udhampur.
Heavy rainfall that triggered avalanches and flash flood has inflicted property damages and rendered scores of people homeless in northern Afghanistan, a provincial official said Sunday.
As soon as the information of civilians getting stuck closer to Khooni Nala and SM Hill on National Highway 701 reached the troops at Nastachun Pass (NC pass), two rescue teams comprising avalanche rescue teams from the Indian Army and a team of GREF were mobilised for rescuing the civilians who were stuck in their vehicles.
Five civilians were also killed in an avalanche in Ganderbal district. Two bodies were found on Monday night and three were found on Tuesday morning. The bodies were handed over to their relatives.
At least two soldiers died after they were trapped in an avalanche in southern Siachen Glacier at an altitude of approximately 18,000 feet on Saturday.
IAF choppers spotted five bodies Monday on the slopes of Nanda Devi while looking for the four Britons, two Americans, one Indian and one Australian believed killed by an avalanche last week.
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