A team of Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel retrieved and carried the body of a pony operator for eight hours, walking a distance of 25 km in the mountainous stretches of Uttarakhand before handing it over to his family.?
The trek was undertaken on August 30 after the 14th battalion of the border guarding force was informed that a body was lying in Syuni village near Bugdayar of Pithoragarh district.?
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"The jawans carried the body of the 30-year-old man for a distance of 25 km for about eight hours and handed over the body?to the family members of the dead," an ITBP spokesperson said.??
?"A team of eight personnel started the trek at 11:30 AM and reached Munsyari village at 7:30 PM on the same day," he said.??
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The personnel carried the body on a stretcher and negotiated narrow mountain bends that are witnessing heavy rains and landslides.
A few days ago, a group of ITBP jawans went out of their way to help an injured woman.?
According to ANI, the jawans travelled 40 km on foot for 15 hours carrying an injured woman on a stretcher from a remote village, Lapsa to Munsyari in Pithoragarh.?
The footage shows the men manoeuvring through difficult terrain to get the woman to a hospital as soon as possible. As reported by ANI, the jawans crossed multiple flooded nullahs & landslide-prone areas.?