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Himachal Pradesh: An official said that the police found the bodies of two people who died after they slipped and fell in snow in Himachal Pradesh’s Billing Valley, as a pet dog stood guard over them for almost two days.
About this incident, the police said that the two tourists, including a woman, went missing on Sunday. On Tuesday, The rescue teams searching for the duo heard the barking sound of the German Shepherd, the police said.
They added that after the sound, they reached the bodies that were lying on the side of a walking trail, three kilometres below the take-off point for paragliders. According to the information received by police for almost two days, the dog, named Alpha, guarded the bodies, which bore marks of attack by wild animals.
The police further said that when the rescue teams removed the bodies, the dog accompanied them till Bir on foot from where the deceased man’s family members took him. The deceased have been identified as Pathankot resident Abhinandan Gupta (30) and his friend Pranita Vala (26), a Pune resident, who had reached Bir Billing, the world famous paragliding destination in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district, on Sunday afternoon.
Both of them had come in a private car along with Gupta’s dog. After parking the car, they set out on foot towards the take-off point of the paragliders. When both of them did not return to Chogan near Bir, their friends informed the police on Monday, after which a rescue team launched a search operation and recovered the bodies on Tuesday.
Kangra ASP Veer Bahadur said preliminary investigation revealed that the man and woman slipped on the snow, got injured and died due to extreme cold. He said that the post mortem report will reveal the circumstances under which both of them died. He added that Gupta was living in a rented house near Chaugan in Bir for the last five years, while the girl had come to Bir a few days ago.
