New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Two days after a cloudburst struck Harsil in Uttarakhand triggering massive mud slide and flash floods in the area, nine soldiers of the Indian Army still remain missing, even as the search and rescue efforts intensified jointly between the Indian Army, civil administration, Indian Air Force(IAF), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
The cloudburst had hit the army camp located in Harshil, taking away eleven soldiers, with two being found hours later after the first impact.
Stating that the Indian Army is working on war footing with the teams, Lieutenant General Naveen Sachdeva, Chief of Staff at the Headquarters of Central Command, said that the operations are being ca...