In the Daulat Beg Oldi district of Ladakh, a tank exercise to cross a river resulted in an accident due to a sudden increase in water level. This resulted in the deaths of five Indian army men, including four soldiers and a JCO.
An officer from the defense department informed news agency ANI that all five bodies had been found.
Early on Saturday morning, in the Nyoma-Chushul area of Ladakh, a tank sank along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) as a result of unexpected floods, killing five military men. The incident happened on Friday night around one in the morning during a training exercise 148 kilometers from Leh.