Fayaz Bukhari
Srinagar, Dec 20: Body of the fourth soldier, missing after heavy snowfall in North Kashmir, has been recovered, while search for the fifth continued for the 10th day today and people in Kashmir got a relief from the intense cold wave condition as minimum night temperatures increased by several degrees across the Valley due to overnight rainfall.
Army recovered body of one soldier identified as Mooty from Gurez taking the death toll of soldiers killed in snow avalanches of last week to four. And in the meanwhile, search operation continued to trace out the fifth soldier, who along with another jawan went missing after they fell from a mountain during heavy snowfall during a routine patrol in Nowgam sector in North Kashmir district of Kupwara on December 11.
Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said that body of the third jawan was recovered today in Gurez sector. “The search and rescue operation continued to trace the soldier, who went missing along with another soldier whose body was recovered on Sunday in Nowgam sector in Kupwara,” he added.
On Monday, bodies of two soldiers, identified as Sepoy Shiv Singh and Lance Naik Marigendra Nath Parmanik, were recovered from Gurez. Sepoy Moorthy, Sepoy Singh and Lance Naik Parmanik went missing after a snow avalanche hit Army’s Mani Post at Bagtoo in Gurez sector on December 11.
And residents of Kashmir today got a big relief from the intense cold wave condition as minimum night temperatures increased by as much as six degrees at some places in the Valley owing to overnight rainfall.
Srinagar city, which recorded a low of minus 3.6 degrees Celsius yesterday, saw the mercury jump to 2.3 degrees Celsius last night. The maximum day temperature settled at 7.6 degree Celsius.
The night temperature in Pahalgam rose from minus 7.0 degrees Celsius to minus 0.1 degree Celsius. The maximum day temperature settled at 7.5 degrees Celsius.
Leh recorded a low of minus 10.5 degrees Celsius last night, over two degrees up from previous night’s minus 13.2 degrees Celsius. The maximum day temperature was 5.8 degree Celsius.
The mercury in Qazigund in South Kashmir settled at a low of 0. 8 degree Celsius, four degrees up from minus 3.2 degrees Celsius, while Kokernag town recorded a low of 1.0 degrees Celsius. The maximum day temperatures of Qazigund and Kokernag was 6.6 degrees Celsius and 5.4 degrees Celsius respectively.
Kupwara town in North Kashmir registered a low of 1.3 degree Celsius compared to minus 3.5 degrees Celsius of the previous night. The maximum day temperature settled at 7.8 degrees Celsius.
Gulmarg in North Kashmir recorded a low of minus 5.2 degrees Celsius last night compared to the previous night’s minus 4.6 degrees Celsius. The maximum day temperature settled at 4.0 degree Celsius.
The increase in minimum temperature was due to rainfall at many places in the plains of Kashmir and snowfall in higher reaches of the Valley during the night.
The MeT office has forecast showers at isolated places in the Valley over the next 48 hours.
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