Rescuers find avalanche bodies
May 28, 2012, Monday
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PAKISTANI rescuers have recovered the first bodies from the site of an avalanche that buried 140 people at a high-altitude army camp more than seven weeks ago, the military said yesterday.
A huge wall of snow crashed into the remote Siachen Glacier base high in the mountains in disputed Kashmir in the early hours of April 7, smothering an area of 1 square kilometer.
Rescuers have been digging in tunnels in the hard mass of snow and ice that hit the battalion headquarters of the 6th Northern Light Infantry to try to recover the bodies of 129 soldiers and 11 civilians at the Gayari camp.
"The body of one more soldier was found today from the avalanche site.
"It was recovered from a place, which is very close to a site from where the first body was found yesterday," the military said in a statement.
Several foreign teams have also visited the site, which is 4,000 meters up in the mountains, to assist rescue efforts.
Gayari sits just below the Siachen Glacier, known as the "world's highest battlefield," where Pakistani and Indian troops have faced off in extreme conditions since the 1980s.
The countries fought over Siachen in 1987, though the guns have largely fallen silent since a peace process began in 2004.
A huge wall of snow crashed into the remote Siachen Glacier base high in the mountains in disputed Kashmir in the early hours of April 7, smothering an area of 1 square kilometer.
Rescuers have been digging in tunnels in the hard mass of snow and ice that hit the battalion headquarters of the 6th Northern Light Infantry to try to recover the bodies of 129 soldiers and 11 civilians at the Gayari camp.
"The body of one more soldier was found today from the avalanche site.
"It was recovered from a place, which is very close to a site from where the first body was found yesterday," the military said in a statement.
Several foreign teams have also visited the site, which is 4,000 meters up in the mountains, to assist rescue efforts.
Gayari sits just below the Siachen Glacier, known as the "world's highest battlefield," where Pakistani and Indian troops have faced off in extreme conditions since the 1980s.
The countries fought over Siachen in 1987, though the guns have largely fallen silent since a peace process began in 2004.
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