Palam: The mortal remains of all nine soldiers killed in an avalanche on the Siachen glacier were brought to Delhi on Monday.
Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag and other high ranking officers paid the last respects to the soldiers at Palam airport.
The bodies are then planned to be flown to their respective destinations, including Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Madurai, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram.
A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and nine other soldiers of 19th Madras Regiment were buried on February 3 after their post was hit by the avalanche at an altitude of 19,600 feet close to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan, where the temperature was minus 45 degrees Celsius.
While Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad was miraculously dug out alive on February 9, nine other bodies were recovered on the same day. The mortal remains of those brought down to Siachen base include Subedar Nagesha TT of Tejur village, Hassan district, Karnataka, Havildar Elumalai M of Dukkam Parai village, Vellore district, Tamil Nadu, Lance Havildar S Kumar of Kumanan Thozhu village, Theni district, Tamil Nadu, Lance Naik Sudheesh of Monroethuruth village, Kollam district, Kerala and Sepoy Mahesha PN of HD Kote village, Mysore district, Karnataka.
Sepoy Ganesan of Chokkathevan Patti village, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, Sepoy Rama Moorthy of Gudisatana Palli village, Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu, Sepoy Mustaq Ahmed of Parnapalle village, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh and Sepoy (Nursing Assistant) Suryawanshi SV of Maskarwadi village, Satara district, Maharashtra are the others whose remains were transported to the base.
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