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55 killed in Kashmir avalanches NEW DELHI, Monday (Xinhua) Fifty-five people Sunday across the Indian-administered Kashmir in avalanches triggered by the heaviest snowfall in 15 years, an Indian army spokesman said. The Indo-Asian News Service quoted the spokesman as saying in the summer capital of Srinagar that 15 people died at least 35 people are missing when avalanches buried their houses in two villages on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in Anantnag district of south Kashmir. Reports from Kashmir's winter capital Jammu said avalanches claimed 18 lives in Alingam village and 22 others perished in Dunno village of Poonch district. Four people were still missing from Navapachi village in Doda district, where the army had rescued 40 people buried under the avalanche. Local authorities described the snowfall as the heaviest in 15 years, with 70 cm of snow being recorded in Srinagar between morning and noon on Sunday. |
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