{"id":190984,"date":"2025-12-23T19:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=190984"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:17:48","slug":"sikkim-indian-army-soldier-dies-as-raft-capsizes-in-teesta-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/12\/23\/sikkim-indian-army-soldier-dies-as-raft-capsizes-in-teesta-river.html","title":{"rendered":"Sikkim: Indian Army soldier dies as raft capsizes in Teesta River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190989\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/12\/skim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"163\" \/>Gangtok: An Indian Army soldier died after a raft capsized in the Teesta River during a training exercise in Pakyong district of Sikkim state.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, a senior officer said the accident occurred during an annual rafting training programme for soldiers when a raft struck a damaged structure of a bridge and capsized in the river, and the soldier was swept away.<\/p>\n<p>The iron bridge was damaged and fell into the river during the 2023 floods.<\/p>\n<p>An operation was immediately launched by the Army along with a team from Teesta Rescue Centre, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The body was recovered from the downstream of the river at Tar Khola under the Kalimpong district of West Bengal, and was sent for post-mortem examinations, the officer said.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was identified as Lance Naik Rajasekhar of the 191 Artillery Regiment, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The rafting was underway between Bardang and Rangpo Mining when the accident occurred, he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gangtok: An Indian Army soldier died after a raft capsized in the Teesta River during a training exercise in Pakyong district of Sikkim state. According to Kashmir Media Service, a senior officer said the accident occurred during an annual rafting training programme for soldiers when a raft struck a damaged structure of a bridge and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/12\/skim.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190990,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190984\/revisions\/190990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}