{"id":210010,"date":"2023-02-01T01:33:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=210010"},"modified":"2023-02-01T01:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:03:57","slug":"army-soldier-saves-boy-from-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/army-soldier-saves-boy-from-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"Army soldier saves boy from drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 31 Jan:<\/strong> A soldier of the Indian Army&#8217;s Arunachal Scouts battalion saved a six-year-old boy from drowning in Shungetsar Lake in Tawang district on 28 January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident occurred when the boy slipped into the ice covered lake, a tourist who witnessed the incident said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Havildar Leki Passang crawled upon the sleet for 25 mtrs and pulled the boy out of bone-chilling water without regard for his own life,&#8221; according to a defence release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This act of valour and instant action by the soldier of the Indian Army saved the life of the kid,&#8221; Tezpur-based Defence PRO Lt Col AS Walia said in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Passang was on leave when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian Army commended him for his brave response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 31 Jan: A soldier of the Indian Army&#8217;s Arunachal Scouts battalion saved a six-year-old boy from drowning in Shungetsar Lake in Tawang district on 28 January. The incident occurred when the boy slipped into the ice covered lake, a tourist who witnessed the incident said. &#8220;Havildar Leki Passang crawled upon the sleet for 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-210010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}