LUCKNOW, India - Seven bodies believed to be from a missing team of international climbers were evacuated in helicopters from a notoriously dangerous Himalayan mountain in northern India on Wednesday, officials said. The bodies were brought to Pithoragarh town in northern India’s Uttarakhand state in Indian air force helicopters, said Vijay Jogdande, a local civil administrator. He said the bodies had remained unidentified so far as the faces are damaged and no identifying papers were found on them. They were first spotted on June 3 from a helicopter but authorities failed to retrieve them. On June 14, two teams from paramilitary soldiers and the Indian Mountaineering Federation were launched from two different directions to reach the spot and retrieve the bodies.

Source: thestar July 03, 2019 07:47 UTC