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Indian troops return after peacekeeping mission in South Sudan
Beginning this month, around 200 HMEC members had returned to Delhi from South Sudan and about 60 more would be coming back next week.
Around 200 soldiers from the Army’s 62 Indian Horizontal Military Engineering Company (HMEC) have returned to India after successfully completing their peacekeeping mission in war-torn South Sudan.
“These soldiers were deployed in South Sudan, which gained independence from neighbouring Sudan in 2011, but slid into a brutal civil conflict and a broken economy,” an Army officer, who was part of the peacekeeping mission