Avalanche blocks highways in Kashmir: 7 killed
Seven Indian paramilitary soldiers died overnight when avalanches smashed into their mountain barracks in Indian-administered Kashmir and also blocked the region's main highway, police said yesterday.
More than a dozen members of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were in their barracks near Jawahar tunnel, 100km south of Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar, when avalanches hit them, a police spokesman said.
He said seven other ITBP men were injured and one was missing and presumed dead. A search for the missing man was continuing amid heavy snow fall.
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