7 Soldiers dead, 19 Injured in bus accident near LoC in Turtuk sector of Ladakh

7 Soldiers dead, 19 Injured in bus accident near LoC in Turtuk sector of Ladakh

Seven soldiers were killed and 19 others sustained injuries on Friday after the vehicle carrying them skidded off the road and tumbled into the Shyok river, in Ladakh’s Turtuk sector, army officials said. The accident took place at 9am around 25km from Thoise. The 26 soldiers were moving in a privately hired vehicle from the transit camp at Partapur, where an Indian Army brigade is headquartered, to a forward location in an area the army calls Sub Sector Hanif. “The vehicle skidded off the road and fell in Shyok river…

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