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10 soldiers go missing in Siachen Glacier avalanche

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Jammu: Ten soldiers, including an officer, went missing on Wednesday after an avalanche hit them in Siachen Glacier in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region.”Ten soldiers, including a junior commissioned officer (JCO), are missing after an avalanche hit their patrol at 19,000 feet above the sea level in southern side of the Siachen Glacier early Wednesday,” Colonel S.D. Goswami, spokesman of army’s Udhampur headquartered northern command, told IANS here. “A massive rescue operation has been started by the army and the Air Force to trace the personnel who are feared buried under  the avalanche,” he added. (IANS)

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