By Associated Press
LEH, India: The stays of an Indian military soldier have been discovered greater than 38 years after he went lacking on a glacier on the highest level alongside the closely militarized contested border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, officers mentioned Wednesday.
The soldier and 17 different colleagues have been occupying a ridge on Siachen Glacier, excessive within the Karakoram vary in disputed Kashmir’s Ladakh area, in May 1984 after they have been hit by an avalanche, officers mentioned.
The our bodies of 13 troopers have been recovered, however 5 remained lacking.
A group of troopers on Monday discovered human stays on the glacier with an identification disc saying they belonged to Chandra Shekhar, one of many lacking males, the Indian military mentioned.
Shekhar was a part of India’s first military unit to occupy the 76-kilometer (47-mile) -long glacier in 1984 amid pitched battles with troopers from Pakistan, which additionally controls a part of divided Kashmir. Both nuclear-armed neighbors declare the entire area. The glacier, thought of the world’s highest battlefield, was uninhabited earlier than Indian troops moved there.
Since then, the 2 international locations have deployed troops at elevations of as much as 6,700 meters (21,982 ft). They have fought intermittent skirmishes on the glacier, however extra Indian and Pakistani troops have died from the grueling circumstances than from hostile hearth.
In 2017, no less than 20 Indian troopers have been killed in three avalanches. In 2012, an avalanche in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir killed 140 folks, together with 129 Pakistani troopers.
Discussions between India and Pakistan on demilitarizing the glacier have been unsuccessful.
Shekhar’s stays have been being flown on Wednesday to his native village in northern Uttarakhand state following a funeral with full navy honors, the military mentioned.
LEH, India: The stays of an Indian military soldier have been discovered greater than 38 years after he went lacking on a glacier on the highest level alongside the closely militarized contested border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, officers mentioned Wednesday.
The soldier and 17 different colleagues have been occupying a ridge on Siachen Glacier, excessive within the Karakoram vary in disputed Kashmir’s Ladakh area, in May 1984 after they have been hit by an avalanche, officers mentioned.
The our bodies of 13 troopers have been recovered, however 5 remained lacking.
A group of troopers on Monday discovered human stays on the glacier with an identification disc saying they belonged to Chandra Shekhar, one of many lacking males, the Indian military mentioned.
Shekhar was a part of India’s first military unit to occupy the 76-kilometer (47-mile) -long glacier in 1984 amid pitched battles with troopers from Pakistan, which additionally controls a part of divided Kashmir. Both nuclear-armed neighbors declare the entire area. The glacier, thought of the world’s highest battlefield, was uninhabited earlier than Indian troops moved there.
Since then, the 2 international locations have deployed troops at elevations of as much as 6,700 meters (21,982 ft). They have fought intermittent skirmishes on the glacier, however extra Indian and Pakistani troops have died from the grueling circumstances than from hostile hearth.
In 2017, no less than 20 Indian troopers have been killed in three avalanches. In 2012, an avalanche in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir killed 140 folks, together with 129 Pakistani troopers.
Discussions between India and Pakistan on demilitarizing the glacier have been unsuccessful.
Shekhar’s stays have been being flown on Wednesday to his native village in northern Uttarakhand state following a funeral with full navy honors, the military mentioned.
