Mourning gets longer as kin wait for dead

Jahangir Ahmad Khan,a resident of Sunkoo village,has made several trips to the Kargil Hill Development Council office to seek information about his brother Aslam,who worked at a guest house in Leh. I have no news of him. I am worried, Khan said.

The only comfort for Jahangir is that his brother not among the five whose bodies were airlifted to Kargil. We have received five bodies from Leh and information is being gathered about other persons from Kargil who were in Leh and adjoining villages at the time of the disaster, Council Chief Executive,Kacho Ahmad Ali Khan said. Due to massive devastation in Leh we are unable to trace all the people of Kargil who were there.

Kacho said they have set up a control room in Kargil to help people get information about their relatives.