Six jawans of the Army’s Jammu & Kashmir Rifles unit are feared dead in an avalanche on the India-China border in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday. Five Armymen are missing while one jawan succumbed to his injuries while being evacuated to hospital.
A combined team of the Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) launched a rescue attempt to locate the other missing soldiers.
The mishap took place around 11.00 am near Shipkila when an Army patrol was moving between two Army posts and a massive snow avalanche hit them, Army officials said in New Delhi.
Several jawans of the ITBP were also trapped in the avalanche, but they were rescued, said Kinnaur Deputy Commissioner Gopal Chand.