Vintage army tank recovered from river Ravi

A vintage army tank was on Tuesday recovered from a river in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district after some villagers claimed the presence of an iron structure in the water body.

Villagers in Lakhanpur noticed a tank-like structure submerged in Ravi river on June 5 and reported the matter to the District Development Commissioner who in turn asked for army assistance to fish out the structure, Defence PRO (Jammu) S N Acharya said.

The Army started the recovery operation Monday and fished out the tank in the morning.

The tank, a huge iron structure without any colour, emblem, insignia and broken canon, might had been used during the 1965 Indo-Pak war and may have been submerged during the floods in Punjab, officials said, adding that the facts, however, are yet to be ascertained.