As search and rescue operations were on for the third day despite bad weather on Friday at Siachen, the Army released the names of 10 soldiers of Madras Regiment who were missing after an ice wall collapsed on their post on the Northern Glacier on Wednesday.
The list of the soldiers include Subedar Nagesha TT, Karnataka, Havildar Elumalai M, Tamil Nadu, lance Havildar S Kumar, Tamil Nadu, lance Naik Sudheesh B, Kerala, lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad, Karnataka, Sepoy Mahesha PN, Karnataka, Sepoy Ganesan G, Tamil Nadu, Sepoy Rama Moorthy N, Tamil Nadu, Sepoy Mustaq Ahmed S, Andhra Pradesh and Sepoy Nursing Assistant Suryawanshi SV, Maharashtra.
Meanwhile, Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag ordered deployment of additional resources including radars to reinforce rescue efforts at a height of more than 19,600 feet, officials said here. Rescue teams were using ice cutters and pneumatic machines to break chunks of ice which fell on the post. However, no missing soldier was traced to far, they said chances of finding any survivors were remote.