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Punjab youth dies after slipping into ditch near Hemkund Sahib in Uttarakhand

Gurpreet Singh of Kale village in Amritsar was visiting Hemkund Sahib with a 90-member group
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An 18-year-old Sikh devotee from Punjab died on Sunday after slipping into a deep ditch on a footpath near Hemkund Sahib gurdwara in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, police said.

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Gurpreet Singh of Kale village in Amritsar was visiting Hemkund Sahib with a 90-member group, they said.

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Police said Singh left the main footpath leading to the gurdwara and took an old, damaged trail that has been closed due to safety concerns. He slipped and fell into a 100-metre-deep ditch.

Police, State Disaster Response Force personnel and other agencies reached the spot, carried out a rescue operation and retrieved the body, they added.

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