SRINAGAR: MoS
Home, Jenab Nazir Aslam Wani left all other engagements and flew from
Jammu to Srinagar to accompany Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain, GOC Chinar
Corps, to the avalanche hit areas of Gurez and Sonamarg this
morning. The MoS Home personally conveyed the condolences of the
Hon’ble CM of Jammu & Kashmir, Jenab Omar Abdullah, to the Corps
Commander.
Flying in an Army Aviation Helicopter, the MoS Home and the
Corps Commander carried out a surveillance of all avalanche prone
villages in the Gurez Valley before landing at Dawar, the scene of the
devastating avalanche which hit the Army’s Brigade HQ at that
location. They witnessed firsthand the joint relief efforts of the Army
and the Civil Administration to locate the three missing army personnel
of the Army’s Workshop at Dawar.
They were received and briefed by Maj
Gen SK Chakravorty,
GOC Kupwara Division and Brig Sanjeev Sharma, Commander Gurez. Jenab
Mohammed Ashraf SDM Gurez was also present at the site. Even as the MoS
and the Corps Commander were being briefed, two massive avalanches from
the North of Kishanganga River thundered down the slopes and reached
almost the river line.
The
MoS Home and Corps Commander also flew to Sonamarg where they were
received by Brig Kuldip Singh, Sub Area Commander, and briefed on the
devastation caused by the avalanches which struck the Army’s camp from
the south ridge. The MoS was assured of all Army and Air Force
assistance for rescue of civilians who were stuck in the vacated
villages in the Sind Valley. He received a firsthand briefing on the
spectacular rescue of nine civilians stuck under the Shitkari Bridge, by
the Air Force and the Army.
The
MoS complimented the joint efforts of the Air Force and the Army and
prayed that all Army Camps and villages would remain safe from the
vagaries of the extreme winter being witnessed in J&K this
year. The Corps Commander thanked the State Government for its
sensitivity and assured it that the cooperation and synergy being
witnessed at all levels would
continue unhindered.
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