Kashmir Avalanche Buries India Army Soldiers
Just a reminder of life’s cruelty and also to take life one day at a time
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At least 17 Indian Army personnel were killed when an avalanche hit a training sub camp in the mountains of Kashmir. About a dozen injured soldiers have been rescued.
The avalanche swept over the soldiers at an advance camp of the Army’s High Altitude Warfare Training School at Khilanmarg, at an altitude of more than 2,700 meters.
A combined rescue team composed of military personnel, police and tourism officials, working in fog and snowfall more than two meters deep, took several hours to recover the bodies of those killed. Read more at www1.voanews.com
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