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Saturday, February 6, 2016

KERALITE AMONG 10 SOLDIERS KILLED IN SIACHEN

KERALITE AMONG 10 SOLDIERS
 KILLED IN SIACHEN

Sudeesh
The patrol party, which was hit by a massive avalanche at Siachen on Wednesday, includes a soldier from Kerala.    All the ten members of the patrol . party were declared dead by the Army. The Keralite, Lans Naik Sudheesh, belonging to Munroe Thuruth in Kollam. While four soldiers are from Tamil Nadu three are from Karnataka. The other deceased are Subedar Ragesh T T, Lans Naik Hanumanthappa Kopad, Sepoy Mahesh (Karnataka), Havildar Ezhumalai M, Lans Havildar S Kumar, Sepoy Ganesan G, Sepoy Ramamoorthy N, (Tamil Nadu), Sepoy Mushtaq Ahmed (Andhra Pradesh) and Sepoy Nursing Assistant Suryavamshi (Maharashtra
The members of patrol party comprising a junior commissioned officer (JCO) went missing after an avalanche hit them at 19,000 feet above the sea level in southern side of the Siachen Glacier, which was once the world's highest battlefield, and with an extremely hostile climate


Prof. John Kurakar

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