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| Landslide kills 6 Indian troops on rescue mission |
| 2005-10-13 |
| A landslide triggered by rain killed at least six Indian soldiers on a rescue mission in Kashmir, an ary officer said on Wednesday. The rockslide wiped out part of a patrol walking along a track, Indian Army Colonel Hemant Juneja said. The incident happened on Tuesday in Kupwara, one of the worst-hit areas in Indian Kashmir, where officials say more than 1,200 people have died. "We have fanned these foot patrol parties in different directions to provide relief and rescue operations in inaccessible areas," Juneja said. Many villages in India's only mainly Muslim state can be reached only by foot or primitive dirt tracks, which become inaccessible even at the best of times. |
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