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Search for jawans continues

SHIMLA: The search for the 33 missing Army soldiers continued for the third day in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh but no survivors or bodies were sighted on Sunday, official sources said.

Unconfirmed reports of another body being spotted at Tangling, the place from where British rafters retrieved the body of a soldier on Saturday, turned out to be false with no bodies being sighted or recovered.

There was no word on the search operations either from the Army or from civil authorities with all telephones in the Kinnaur district being out of order.

Bridge collapse

At least 34 soldiers, including Lt Colonel Amarjit Singh, Capt Mandal Vokil and Naib Subedar Vidhy Dharan, were washed away and feared dead in Kharo village of the district after an under construction bailey bridge over the Sutlej collapsed on September eight.

One body was recovered o Saturday but there was no trace of the remaining bodies.

The dead soldier was identified as Havaldar Raviselvam 35.

Wreath laid

Major General Deepak Anand on Sunday laid a wreath on his body on behalf of GOC-in-Chief Western Command S. Pattabhiraman at the command hospital in Chandimandir .

The sources said the body of the soldier is being flown to Kanyakumari for his last rites.

His wife and two children survive him.

UNI

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