Jammu and Kashmir: Avalanche hits Bandipora; 5 rescued by joint team of police, Army
India | February 23, 2019 12:01 ISTFive persons were trapped under the snow, prompting authorities to launch a search and rescue operation.
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Five persons were trapped under the snow, prompting authorities to launch a search and rescue operation.
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According to a PTI report, the avalanche hit the security forces near Shipkala on Kinnaur-Tibet border in HP's Kinnaur district.
According to IANS, two people were rescued alive on Friday from a police post that was buried under an avalanche in Jawahar Tunnel area of Jammu-Srinagar highway.
The Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed for the third consecutive day on Friday due to heavy snowfall and landslides
The avalanche hit the north portal of Jawahar Tunnel on the Qazigund side.
Most of the prominent tourist towns like Shimla, Narkanda, Kufri, Manali and Dalhousie, located in mid-hills, may also witness snowfall.
Initially, four people aboard a snow clearance machine were trapped under the avalanche that struck on the Pahalgam-Aru road, the officials said.
All 10 people travelling in the truck went missing after the avalanche hit their vehicle. Three bodies have been recovered so far while seven are still missing.
Police sources said the avalanche hit an Army post around 4 a.m. along the Line of Control (LoC).
The deadly snowstorm buried the climbers at the base camp at an altitude of 3,500 metres near the south face of Mount Dhaulagiri in western Nepal on Friday evening.
"Bodies of three persons who went missing on February 24 after they were hit by an avalanche at Guchibal Behak in Kupwara district were recovered today by the joint rescue team of police, SDRF and army," a police spokesman said.
Four others were rescued alive from the resort and taken to a local hospital for treatment, a police spokesman said.
An advisory by the agency said high-danger avalanche warning exists for avalanche-prone areas in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, while medium-danger avalanche warning exists for Kupwara and Bandipora districts in the state.
Rescue operations were launched immediately, and all four extricated and taken to the next nearest post on foot, but three of them - Havaldar Kamlesh Singh, 39, Naik Balveer, 33 and Sepoy Rajinder, 25 - succumbed to their injuries.
The people living in higher reaches of these districts should avoid movement in the avalanche-prone areas/slopes for the next 24 hours, a government agency warned.
Paoli Dam and her husband Arjun Deb were in Switzerland on their honeymoon.
Sadhna Pass, which mostly remains closed for six months in winters, connects Kupwara with border town of Karnah
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