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| Little hope for 139 in avalanche | |
| 2012-04-15 | |
ISLAMABAD: There is little hope that any of the 128 Pakistani soldiers and 11 civilians buried under an avalanche that engulfed a battalion at an alpine camp a week ago will be found alive, Pakistan's army said on Saturday.
Bad weather has hampered efforts to try to find survivors of the avalanche that trapped its victims beneath 25 m (80 feet) of snow in one of the most unforgiving environments in the world. The disaster struck early on Saturday a week ago at an altitude of 4,000 m (13,000 feet) near the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram mountain range. Ahmad said the sheer size of the avalanche, which covered an area about one km (half a mile) wide, and the increasingly bad weather conditions were the biggest hurdles to the rescue effort. He said the military had used the camp for more than 20 years, had never before faced a disaster of such magnitude and would not yet abandon the search. "We are continuing with both rescue and recovery. We are hoping to continue the rescue efforts until such a time that we get to the people over there," he said. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Just wait some decades and all will be transported to the glacier snout. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2012-04-15 12:21 |