No less than five Armed force men lost their lives after they were cleared away in a setback in stream Shyok in Eastern Ladakh on Saturday.

Sources affirmed the passings however subtleties are anticipated. The dead are from the Heavily clad Regiment of the Indian Armed force.

The Military men were crossing the stream in a T-72 tank as a component of a drill to rehearse development in exigency. The tanks can drift on water and continue to push ahead.

The Shyok Stream is key water body that runs past the Depsang fields close to Daulat Baig Oldie landing strip.

The Shyok that plummets from the Eastern flank of the Rimo Kangri icy mass is quickly streaming waterway and is feeder of the Indus.

There was an unexpected expansion in water levels because of snow dissolve. The territory is tree-less and the snow liquefy at the mountain tops surges directly to the waterway running in the valley.

Association Guard Pastor Rajnath Singh communicated sympathies on the passing of five Armed force warriors.

"Profoundly disheartened at the deficiency of lives of five of our valiant Indian Armed force warriors in a lamentable mishap while getting the tank across a stream in Ladakh", he said in a post on X.