Toxic gasses hamper Siachen rescue
April 17, 2012 15:27
Toxic gases hampered on Tuesday the search for 138 people buried by an avalanche at a high-altitude Pakistan Army camp, as teams from the United States and Norway arrived at the site to help operations. A huge wall of snow crashed into the remote Siachen Glacier base high in the mountains in disputed Kashmir more than a week ago, smothering an area of one square kilometer.
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