Jammu and Kashmir: Search on for missing trekkerÂ
Srinagar/UNI: A massive search operation has been launched to trace a youth who went missing during trekking along with four others in the central Kashmir district of Ganderbal, official sources said.
They said a group of five youths, mostly students, had gone for trekking to Naranag-Gangabal Lake in Ganderbal district last week.
However, four youths returned back after trekking to Gangabal while one youth identified as Hilal Ahmad Dar, a resident of Bemina, Srinagar went missing, they said.
The trekkers has told police that Hilal was sent back after he could not climb a difficult trek to Butsheri and Budpatheri. Hilal was asked to go home when he expressed his inability to climb, they said adding all the four later trekked and reached Gangabal. Later after staying for two days at Gangabal, they returned back to Srinagar, the trekkers said.
The trekkers who had returned back has said that there was no mobile network after Naranag so they could not remain in contact with Hilal.
Sources said immediately a massive search operation was launched in the hilly trek and dense forest. Army, police and locals have joined the operation, they said adding so far Hilal, reportedly a student of Kashmir University (KU) was not found so far.
A ten member mountaineering group has also joined the search operation, they said.
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