Srinagar: A soldier was buried alive under an army truck when it turned turtle near the NHPC band in Devprayag police station area in Uttarakhand's Tehri Garhwal district on Wednesday.
Station in-charge Mahipal Singh Rawat reached the spot with the force from Devprayag and Bachelikhal outpost to rescue the trapped jawan.
The jawan was taken out with the help of a crane and rushed to the community health centre in Devprayag where doctors declared him dead on arrival. It is learnt that the truck was carrying four soldiers from Gauchar to Raiwala Dehradun.
The deceased, Subedar Khushpal Singh (35), was of Garhwal Scout of the 26 Rajput Regiment.
Turck driver N K Darshan Singh told the police that the pressure of the truck suddenly fell, leading to brake failure. As it was a sloppy road, the vehicle started rolling back sending the jawans onboard in a tizzy. They jumped off the truck seeing it going berserk. But the truck suddenly overturned, burying Singh.
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