Credit: TOI
GRENOBLE (FRANCE): A bag of Indian diplomatic mail is set to be delivered more than 46 years late after it was found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, close to where an Air India plane crashed in January 1966.
The jute bag, stamped ‘diplomatic mail’ and ‘ministry of external affairs’, was found by mountain rescue worker Arnaud Christmann and his neighbour Jules Berger on Aug 21.
“Some tourists came and told us they had seen something shining on the Bossons glacier,” Christmann said. So he and his neighbour decided to go have a look, he said. The two men also came across a plane wheel and, 20 metres further on, the diplomatic bag that was “sitting as if someone had just placed it there” . “We were hoping for diamonds or at least a few gold ingots.”
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