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MOUNTAINEERING-INDIA
Bodies of seven climbers retrieved from Indian mountain
NEW DELHI, June 23, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The bodies of seven climbers killed
on India’s second highest mountain were retrieved Sunday by a group of highly
trained mountaineers, the border police said.
A 10-strong group of mountaineers from the paramilitary Indo-Tibetan
Border Police (ITBP) found the bodies near an unnamed peak on Nanda Devi
East.
They “have been retrieved and taken to a nearby site,” ITBP spokesman
Vivek Kumar Pandey told AFP.
BSS/AFP/ARS/2033 hrs