We Salute Our Brave Soldiers Who Lost Their Lives in the Siachen Avalanche

The 10 Army personnel, who were hit by a massive avalanche at Siachen on Wednesday morning, have been declared dead by the Army.

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They were stationed at an altitude of 19,600 feet on the Siachen Glacier in Jammu and Kashmir, close to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan.

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The Army and Indian Air Force tried very hard to rescue the soldiers – a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and nine other ranks of Army’s 19 Madras Regiment. They were buried under a mass of snow and a specialised team, along with sniffer dogs, was deployed to find them. The rescue team braved the adverse weather to locate the survivors, but the rescue operation failed.

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