SHIMLA: The frozen body of an Indian soldier has been found on a Himalayan glacier, a mountaineering team said Saturday, 50 years after he and more than 100 others died in a military plane crash.
The team said it also found some wreckage from the Indian Air Force turboprop, a Soviet Union-built Antonov An-12 transport plane which crashed in February 1968.
“We stumbled upon an arm of a human body jutting out of the ice. The rest of the body can be seen inside the glacier,” expedition head Rajiv Rawat told AFP.
Rawat said the team contacted the army, which has since launched an operation to retrieve the remains.
The expedition found the body at an altitude of around 5,500 metres (18,000 feet) in India’s inhospitable Himalayan mountain range.
Saturday’s discovery was the fifth body located from the crash after decades of extensive and largely fruitless search operations.
The next most recent body was found and identified in 2013.
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