Brothers died in Siachen: Family gets body of one after 21 years

[Sir john]

Twenty-one years after havaldar Thukaram Vithoba Patil of the 4 Maratha Light Infantry fell into a crevasse while patrolling the world's highest battleground — Siachen, his mortal remains were recovered by a group of soldiers this week. Patil, who belonged to Maharashtra, had fallen into a crevasse on February 27, 1993 while he was on an operational patrol in the Northern Glacier. His body could not be traced despite numerous attempts to recover it. Because of the sub-zero temperatures, the body had not decomposed, said sources, adding that he was identified by a letter from his family and a medical certificate found in his pocket. Tragically, his younger brother, also a soldier with the Maratha Light Infantry, died in an avalanche in 1987 in the Central Glacier. The body remains untraced. Patil's mortal remains were recovered on October 12 by a patrol team of the 12 Madras Regiment.

[beetle]

Really sad..... But the family will finally have closure.:(( Hope they find the remains of the other brother also.I have seen families of missing soldiers.They turn into such a mess running after astrologers and what not in the wild hope that their loved one will just walk back into their life once again.There are all kinds of people ready to exploit these already fragile people.This is sometimes worse than hearing the news of death.