Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi (SD)

New Delhi, Sep 2: The body of a pony operator was carried by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) walking a distance of 25 km. The soldiers walked for about eight hours along a mountainous stretch of Uttarakhand before handing over the body to the family, officials reported on Wednesday, September 2.

The 14th battalion of the border force carried the body on August 30 after being informed that a body was lying in Syuni village near Bugdayar of Pithoragarh district.

An ITBP spokesperson said, "The jawans carried the body of the 30-year-old man for a distance of 25 km for about eight hours and handed over the body to the family members of the dead."

He said that a team of eight personnel started the trek at 11.30 am and reached Munsyari village at 7.30 pm on the same day.

"The personnel carried the body on a stretcher and negotiated narrow mountain bends that are witnessing heavy rains and landslides," he said.

Similarly, the ITBP team had carried an injured woman for 15 hours after they rescued her from a mountainous and remote border location in Pithoragarh last week.