Leh: Thirty-three soldiers, including three Junior Commission Officers (JCOs), deployed along the Line of Control (LoC) near Siachen glacier are feared to have been washed away to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) due to flash floods in Ladakh.
A senior Army officer said that the jawans of the 15 Bihar infantry regiment, who were manning a post near Turtok along the LoC, remained untraced after they faced the fury of a swollen Shyok river on the same day when Leh was hit by flash floods following a devastating cloudburst on Friday last.
The Army has now sought the help of Pakistani authorities to help rescue the 33 personnel as it fears that they may have been swept towards PoK in the deluge, the officer said.
He added that the soldiers were well-trained to negotiate the conditions, but the Army has not been able to trace them even 48 hours after the incident.
Frantic rescue efforts are underway in Leh and parts of Ladakh after Friday's devastating cloudburst that flattened villages, snapped power and communication links and left over 150 people dead.
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