Rescue operation continues in Siachen

February 06, 2016 13:04

The rescue operation to find the 10 soldiers who were buried alive after an avalanche hit an army post in Siachen on February 3 is continuing with additional specialised equipment and teams deployed at the site, said the ministry of defence.

The avalanche struck an Indian Army post in the Northern Siachen Glacier at a height of 19,600 feet.

The army post that faced its brunt was manned by one junior commissioned officer (JCO) and nine soldiers. All ten soldiers went missing after the avalanche.

Amid massive operation undertaken by the armed forces to rescue soldiers trapped under snow, the Defence Ministry had, earlier, said that chances of finding any survivors are rare.

Specialised teams of the Army and the Air Force have been deployed to carry out the search and rescue operations in the area, where temperatures range from minus 42 degrees in the night to minus 25 degrees during the day.

The avalanche struck an Indian Army post in the Northern Siachen Glacier at a height of 19,600 feet.

The 10 missing soldiers are:

Subedar Nagesh

Havildar Elumalai

Lancer Havildar S Kumar

Lancer Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad

Sepoy Magesh

Sepoy Ganesan

Sepoy Ramamurthy

Sepoy Mustaq Ahmed

Sepoy Nursing Asst Suryavanshi

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