{"id":317511,"date":"2019-12-04T11:25:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317511"},"modified":"2019-12-04T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:25:29","slug":"kashmir-four-soldiers-killed-in-avalanches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kashmir-four-soldiers-killed-in-avalanches\/","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir: Four soldiers killed in avalanches"},"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=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Four soldiers were killed in two separate incidents of avalanches in north Kashmir, an army official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Three soldiers were killed after being hit by an avalanche in the Tangdhar area of Kupwara district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another incident army soldier died when an army patrol was caught in a blizzard in Gurez area in Bandipora district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, bodies of all the deceased have been recovered by rescue teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A number of casualties were reported in recent weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On November 18, four soldiers and two civilian porters were killed in an avalanche in the Siachen Glacier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four soldiers were killed in two separate incidents of avalanches in north Kashmir, an army official said. Three soldiers were killed after being hit by an avalanche in the Tangdhar area of Kupwara district. In another incident army soldier died when an army patrol was caught in a blizzard in Gurez area in Bandipora district. [&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":[2063,1141,2065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317511"}],"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=317511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317513,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317511\/revisions\/317513"}],"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=317511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}