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	April 21, 2008

Indian Army soldiers rescue Congo crash victims A timely rescue operation mounted by Indian Army troops serving on a UN peacekeeping mission saved the lives of a number of passengers injured in a plane crash in the Congo. The officers and men of the 6th battalion of the Sikh Light Infantry swung into action immediately after a Heba Wora airways DC-9 aircraft with 80 passengers and six crew on board crashed at the southern end of the runway of Goma airport in the North Kivu province of the C ...