Four bodies were recovered and two people were rescued after an avalanche struck Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said on Saturday
Four bodies were recovered and two people were rescued after an avalanche struck Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said on Saturday.
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"Four bodies comprising a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) engineer and three civilians have been recovered so far. Rescue operations are still going on," a police officer said.
The avalanche, which occurred on Friday evening in Sadhna Top area of Tangdhar region, hit a car from where a child was rescued while the other six passengers were reported missing. The search teams also rescued a 50-year-old local late Friday. The BRO engineer has been identified as Mangla Prasad Singh.
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