Body of man missing for 28 years found inside glacier after ice melt

The missing man's ID card which was found with his body

A shepherd has discovered the body of a man who vanished nearly three decades ago, preserved in a glacier exposed by melting ice in a remote Pakistani mountain region.

The body was found last Friday with clothing intact in the Supat Valley, also known as Lady Valley, in the Kohistan region in the country’s north-east.

“What I saw was unbelievable,” the local shepherd who found the body, Omar Khan, told the BBC. “The body was ­intact. The clothes were not even torn.”

An identity card recovered with the body named the man as Naseeruddin.

Once police confirmed the identity, locals came forward to provide more information, said Mr Khan, who often visits the area in

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