Hope fades for 5 soldiers

Srinagar, December 14

Even as efforts to trace the five missing soldiers continue more than 48 hours after they were buried under snow in north Kashmir, there is little hope of their being found alive.

In two separate incidents on Tuesday when the Valley’s upper reaches witnessed heavy snowfall, two soldiers slipped down a slope in Nowgam sector of Kupwara district while three went missing from a forward post in Kanzalwan Gurez along the Line of Control in Bandipora.

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The Army has deployed avalanche rescue and High-Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) teams. “The search is on but they have not been traced,” a defence official said. — TNS