Security Personnel Carry Woman For 15 Hours In Uttarakhand Rescue Operation
Uttarakhand: A staff of ITBP group of workers carried an injured girl for 15 hours
New Delhi:
A staff of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) group of workers carried an injured girl for 15 hours because it rescued her from a mountainous and faraway border location of Uttarakhand, an officer of the border-guarding power mentioned on Sunday.
The troops negotiated swollen rivulets, rocky tracks and landslide-prone heights on Saturday whilst rescuing the lady on a cot from Lapsa village in Pithoragarh district’s Munsyari the town.
The girl fell from a hillside and broke her legs on August 20 however she may just no longer be rescued for 2 days as a chopper may just no longer land within the house, an ITBP spokesperson mentioned.
As her situation worsened, the ITBP was once knowledgeable and therefore, troops from the 14th battalion of the power deployed on the Milam border publish alongside the Sino-India Line of Exact Regulate (LAC), about 22 kms from the lady’s village, trekked to rescue her, he added.
“Twenty-five ITBP males took turns to hold the lady on a stretcher for 15 hours via flooded nullahs, landslide-prone spaces and slippery slopes for roughly 40 kms, as much as the closest roadhead.
“The girl was once additional evacuated to a sanatorium. She is solid now,” the officer mentioned.
The paramilitary power is basically tasked with guarding the three,488-km-long LAC with China.
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