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Men in fatigues turn rescuers... of deer

It is an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation at the Indo-Pak border with both armies lobbing shells and trading gunfire with each other.

But amid all the war mongering, the Indian army had managed to save a pair of deer six months back, which they returned to the forest department on Tuesday for releasing them in their natural habitat.

The pair was rescued by the Indian troops after they had strayed to the Indian side after Pakistani soldiers had 'hunted down' their mother, an army spokesman said.

During routine patrolling, some army personnel found the pair -- hardly two weeks old at that time -- in a shocked and dazzled state, he said.

After rescuing the pair from the Dera Baba Nanak sector, the pair was accorded proper care and nurturing till it grew up, he added.

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