{"id":11935,"date":"2019-11-19T14:11:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T09:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=11935"},"modified":"2019-11-19T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T09:11:34","slug":"indian-soldiers-killed-after-avalanche-hits-siachen-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/11935","title":{"rendered":"Indian Soldiers Killed after Avalanche Hits Siachen Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">At least four soldiers and two civilian porters have been killed after an avalanche hit the Siachen Glacier in the Indian-occupied Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The avalanche struck a group of eight soldiers patrolling near a post at a height of 5,485 meters (17,995 feet) in the northern part of the\u00a0 Himalayan glacier on Monday, Indian army spokesmen said.<\/p>\n<p>Two Indian Army personnel survived the avalanche. Rescue teams from nearby posts were rushed to the location after the incident, an Army spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All eight personnel were pulled out of the avalanche debris. Seven individuals were critically injured in the incident,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A search-and-rescue mission pulled eight people from the snow who were were later airlifted to a military hospital, according to the local media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite best efforts, six casualties, which includes four soldiers and two civilian porters succumbed to extreme hypothermia,&#8221; as told by spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Colonel Abhinav Navneet, another army spokesman, said that the two surviving soldiers were undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He added that an army post was also hit by the avalanche but no fatalities were reported there.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said he was &#8220;deeply pained&#8221; by the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The glacier is on the northern tip of the Line of Control that divides India- and Pakistan-administered\u00a0Kashmir.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least four soldiers and two civilian porters have been killed after an avalanche hit the Siachen Glacier in the Indian-occupied Kashmir. The avalanche struck a group of eight soldiers patrolling near a post at a height of 5,485 meters (17,995 feet) in the northern part of the\u00a0 Himalayan glacier on Monday, Indian army spokesmen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11937,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935\/revisions\/11937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}