One army soldier lost his life while three others are missing after an unexpected avalanche occurred near Mount Kun in Ladakh, officials said. According to sources, a contingent of army personnel from the High-Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) and the Army Adventure Wing were involved in routine training activities near Mount Kun (Ladakh) when the avalanche happened.<\/p>\n
“Such exercises are part of routine practice and training during this season, to provide mountaineering training for soldiers,” sources said. However, on October 8, a group of soldiers taking training faced an unexpected avalanche.<\/p>\n
“Four soldiers were trapped in an avalanche. Immediate rescue operations were initiated and continued; one body was retrieved. Bad weather is causing a big hindrance in rescue as heavy snowfall is being witnessed in the area but despite that rescue operations are going on to trace missing soldiers,” they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One army soldier lost his life while three others are missing after an unexpected avalanche occurred near Mount Kun in Ladakh, officials said. According to sources, a contingent of army personnel from the High-Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) and the Army Adventure Wing were involved in routine training activities near Mount Kun (Ladakh) when the avalanche […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,26155,16185],"tags":[27158,27154,27153,27157,27151,27160,27163,27156,27155,25714,27152,27162,27159,27161,27164],"class_list":["post-49167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-jammu-kashmir","category-national","tag-10-missing-after-avalanche-hits-khardung-la-in-ladakh","tag-10-soldiers-missing","tag-10-soldiers-missing-after-avalanche","tag-10-soldiers-missing-after-avalanche-in-siachen","tag-avalanche","tag-avalanche-in-ladakh","tag-indian-army-soldiers-missing","tag-indian-soldier-killed-in-ladakh-avalanche","tag-indian-soldiers-missing-in-ladakh","tag-ladakh","tag-ladakh-avalanche","tag-ladakh-avalanche-one-army-jawan-killed","tag-ladakh-news","tag-news-of-avalanche-in-ladakh","tag-three-army-jawans-missing-after-ladakh-avalanche-hit-mount-kum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49169,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49167\/revisions\/49169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}