Pakistan's army said that the collapse of ice swallowed an army camp near the Pakistani border with India on Saturday to bury more than 100 soldiers without the appearance of any sign of survivors after 15 hours. The state television quoted Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, military spokesman as saying that the snow left by the collapse reached 25 meters high and covered an area of ??one kilometer.
The soldiers were trapped in one of the most severe environments on earth at an altitude of 4500 m near the Siachen glacier in the Karakoram mountain range.
The region is one of the most tense fronts where military confronted the Indian and Pakistani armies to each other for the disputed area.
Abbas told Reuters earlier that 117 military who were stationed in the region. The rescue team using a helicopter to search for survivors has been the use of sniffer dogs, Abbas said this happened in just the sixth time. These usually occur at night collapses. It surprised them.
Siachen area is located in the northern part of the Kashmir region, located in the Himalayas at an altitude of 6 000 meters above sea level.
Military experts say that the victims of harsh climate and areas prone to landslides ice more than the victims of the shooting.
The area is located mainly Muslim Kashmir at the center of the conflict between India and Pakistan and was the reason for two of three wars between the two countries and described as the Siachen region's highest battlefield in the world. Have fought Indian and Pakistani troops fighting on the rise more than 20 thousand feet in temperatures up to 60 degrees Celsius below zero.
And stationed between ten thousand and 20 thousand of Indian and Pakistani troops in the mountains of ice over the area
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