Siachen: China sends technical devices in aid to Pakistan Army

Siachen: China sends technical devices in aid to Pakistan Army

The Chinese armed forces have sent technical devices to the Pakistani army after a request for help in searching for bodies trapped by an avalanche.    

A statement released by the Chinese Defense Ministry on Saturday said the Chinese People’s Liberation Army also sent specialists to Islamabad to help with rescue efforts. The specialists help to offer technical guidance, reports Xinhua news.

Earlier, Pakistani troops started excavating a new site in their search for 138 people buried by an avalanche at a high-altitude army camp despite a fresh slide in the area, the military said on Saturday.

A week ago a huge wall of snow crashed into the remote Siachen Glacier base high in the mountains in disputed Kashmir early in the morning, smothering an area of one square kilometre (a third of a square mile).

A fresh slide at the same site created difficulties for troops conducting search operations in low temperatures, intermittent snowfall and blizzards, the military said in a statement, without specifying the date of the new slide.

“The rescuers have commenced excavation at a new site, using plant equipment and infantry troops,” it said.

“The search teams conducted first level explosion to dig further into hard mass of snow against the tunnel being attempted to access a suspected structure at an important excavation site”.

Specialist high altitude teams from the United States, Germany and Switzerland are being sent by road and air to the remote site while units from China and Norway are due to arrive in Islamabad soon.

Search teams are looking for the trapped soldiers and civilians at six different points on the site, around 13,000 feet up in the mountains.

Troops were also attempting to dig a horizontal tunnel at the base of the main excavation site to reach what is thought to be one of the camp buildings.

More than 450 rescuers are working in sub-zero temperatures at the site, though experts have said there is virtually no chance of finding any survivors.

The Chinese armed forces have sent technical devices to the Pakistani army after a request for help in searching for bodies trapped by an avalanche.

A statement released by the Chinese Defense Ministry on Saturday said the Chinese People’s Liberation Army also sent specialists to Islamabad to help with rescue efforts. The specialists help to offer technical guidance, reports Xinhua news.

Meanwhile, chief of Pakistani military operations, Major General Ishfaque Nadeem told a press conference in Rawalpindi that specialist high altitude teams from Germany and Switzerland have reached the remote site.

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Posted by Ammar Ahmad on Apr 15 2012. Filed under Latest News, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry