Jammu/New Delhi : The army on Wednesday recovered the body of a porter who died after slipping into a 200-foot deep crevasse in Jammu and Kashmir’s Siachen Glacier.
Three crevasses opened up in the northern glacier at the Siachen on February 25, and these were bridged on February 26 and 27. The porter, Thukjay Gyasket, was part of the crevasse bridging team.
“After a massive rescue effort, the army today (Wednesday) recovered the body of a porter who had fallen into a 200-foot deep crevasse in Siachen’s northern glacier,” Colonel S.D. Goswami, spokesman of the army’s Udhampur-headquartered Northern Command told IANS in Jammu.
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