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Jawan’s body recovered from avalanche site after 11 days

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Tribune News Service

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Shimla, March 2

After 11 days of frantic searches, rescue teams of the Army, ITBP and Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on Saturday recovered the body of a jawan, who was missing following an avalanche at Namgia in Kinnaur district on February 20.

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He has been identified as Rajesh Rishi (25) of Jojghon Jagatpur village in Nalagarh.

The body was brought to Pooh and will be handed over to family members after the post-mortem examination, sources in the Kinnaur district administration said, maintaining that massive search operations were on for locating the bodies of the remaining four jawans.

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Those missing include Videsh Chand, Gobind Bahadur, Arjun Kumar and Nitin Rana.

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