{"id":316876,"date":"2019-11-19T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316876"},"modified":"2019-11-19T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T03:58:09","slug":"four-soldiers-two-porters-killed-after-avalanche-hits-army-patrol-in-siachen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/four-soldiers-two-porters-killed-after-avalanche-hits-army-patrol-in-siachen\/","title":{"rendered":"Four soldiers, two porters killed after Avalanche hits Army Patrol in Siachen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_308284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308284\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308284\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/avalanche.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/avalanche.jpg 474w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/avalanche-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-308284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Four soldiers and two civilian porters were killed in an avalanche in the Siachen Glacier on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The soldiers were part of a patrolling group of eight; they died due to extreme hypothermia after they were stuck under the snow for long hours, confirmed Indian Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The team of eight personnel operating in Norther Sector of Siachen Glacier were hit by an avalanche at 3:30 pm yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Army had launched a massive search and rescue operation to bring back the trapped soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After hours of rescue operations, all soldiers were pulled out of the avalanche debris, seven were critically injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressed grief on the demise of soldiers and porters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDeeply pained by the demise of soldiers and porters due to avalanche in Siachen. I salute their courage and service to the nation. My heartfelt condolences to their families,\u201d Rajnath tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four soldiers and two civilian porters were killed in an avalanche in the Siachen Glacier on Monday. The soldiers were part of a patrolling group of eight; they died due to extreme hypothermia after they were stuck under the snow for long hours, confirmed Indian Army. The team of eight personnel operating in Norther Sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[12045],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316877,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316876\/revisions\/316877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}