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LEH, India (AP) — India, more than 38 years after being lost in a glacier at the highest point along the hotly contested militarization border between India and Pakistan, in Kashmir. A soldier's body was found, an official said Wednesday.
In May 1984, a soldier and 17 of his colleagues were hit by an avalanche as they occupied a ridge on the Siachen glacier high in the Karakorum mountains in the disputed Ladakh region of Kashmir. so, officials said.
The bodies of 13 soldiers were recovered, but five remained missing.
A team of soldiers on Monday carried an ID disk marked as belonging to one of his missing, Chandrashekhar, according to the Indian Army. A human remains was found in a glacier.
Shekhar was India's first to occupy the 76-kilometre (47-mile) long glacier in 1984 in a pitched battle with soldiers from Pakistan, which controls part of a divided Kashmir. was part of the army of Both nuclear-armed neighbors claim everything in the region. Considered the highest battlefield in the world, the glacier was uninhabited before the Indian army moved there.
Since then, both countries have deployed their forces at heights up to 6,700 meters (21,982 feet). They have fought intermittent skirmishes on the glacier, but more Indian and Pakistani troops died in the harsh conditions than in hostile fires. At least 20 Indian soldiers died in the avalanche. In 2012, an avalanche struck Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, killing 140 of his people, including 129 Pakistani soldiers.
Talks between India and Pakistan on the demilitarization of Glacier have not been successful.
Shekhar's remains were taken to his home village in northern Uttarakhand on Wednesday after a full military funeral, according to the military.
