ITBP troops carry woman for 15 hrs in Uttarakhand rescue operation

A team of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel carried an injured woman for 15 hours as it rescued her from a mountaius and remote border location of Uttarakhand, an officer of border-guarding force said on Sunday.

troops negotiated swollen rivulets, rocky tracks and landslide-prone heights on Saturday while rescuing woman on a cot from Lapsa vill in Pithoragarh district's Munsyari town.

woman fell from a hillside and broke her legs on August 20 but she could t be rescued for two days as a chopper could t land in area, an ITBP spokesperson said.

As her condition worsened, ITBP was informed and subsequently, troops from 14th battalion of force deployed at Milam border post along Si-India Line of Actual Control (LAC), about 22 kms from woman's vill, trekked to rescue her, he added.

"Twenty-five ITBP men took turns to carry woman on a stretcher for 15 hours through flooded nullahs, landslide-prone areas and slippery slopes for about 40 kms, up to nearest roadhead.

" woman was furr evacuated to a hospital. She is stable w," officer said.

paramilitary force is primarily tasked with guarding 3,488-km-long LAC with China.