Missing Indian soldier’s body found on glacier after 38 years

Chandra Shekhar went missing 38 years ago (AP)

The remains of an Indian army soldier have been found more than 38 years after he went missing on a glacier at the highest point along the heavily militarised contested border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday.

The soldier and 17 other colleagues were occupying a ridge on Siachen Glacier, high in the Karakoram range in disputed Kashmir’s Ladakh region, in May 1984, when they were hit by an avalanche, officials said.