Avalanche in North Kashmir: Nine people feared dead
Srinagar, Jan 5 (UNI) Nine people were feared dead in an avalanche this evening that hit a border area in Tanghdar sector in the frontier Kashmir district of Kupwara.
Official sources told UNI that the avalanche occurred in an area near Sadhna Top in Kupwara.
Among the dead were seven passengers of a vehicle and two people on foot.
” Search and rescue teams, comprising of state police and Army, have launched an operation to trace the missing people,” the sources said but chances of survival of any of the nine missing people, who were swept into a deep gorge, were extremely bleak.
