Personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), rescued an injured woman from a remote village in northern India.

A group of 25 ITBP men carried her on a stretcher from her village in Pithoragarh district and shifted her to a hospital walking 40km over 15 hours, trekking across flooded mountains.

The woman fell and broke her legs on August 20. She hails from a remote village Laspa of Munsiyari division.

On receiving information, the ITBP personnel went to the village from their border outpost to rescue the woman whose condition was worsening every passing day due to lack of treatment.

The ITBP personnel reached the village, 22 km from their base in Milam, on August 22 covering most of the stretch on foot, before making the further 40km journey and evacuating the woman to a hospital safely.

Personnel of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a para military force, rescued an injured woman from a remote village in Pithoragarh district in northern India.

A group of 25 ITBP men carried her on a stretcher and shifted her to a hospital walking 40 kms over 15 hours trekking across flooded mountains.

The woman fell and broke her legs on August 20. She hails from a remote village Laspa of Munsiyari division in Pithoragarh district. On receiving information, the ITBP personnel went to the village from their Border Outpost to rescue the woman whose condition was worsening every passing day due to lack of treatment. The ITBP personnel reached the village -- which is 22 kms from their Milam base -- on Saturday (August 22) covering most of the stretch on foot.

After reaching the village, the 25 ITBP men carried the woman on stretcher one by one for 15 hours through flooded nallahs, landslide zone areas and slippery slopes to take her 40 kms to a distant road head from where she was further evacuated to the hospital where her condition is stated to be stable now.