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Among the professional troops taking part in this exercise are members of Norway's home guard - mostly part-time soldiers.

After independence much of it went to the home guards, as the Mau Mau continued to be considered a terrorist organisation.

Thousands of personnel from other government security services including the home guards and the para-military Border Security Force will be brought in to maintain law and order, he said.

He said two of the dead were members of the home guard, a voluntary force that helps police control civil disturbances.

Authorities say a police official and five home guards are among those killed in the accident which took place in Chamoli district.