Srinagar: Four soldiers, including a junior commissioned officer (JCO) and a civilian, were trapped under an avalanche in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Saturday and were yet to be traced, an army official said.

“Around 8 am today, an avalanche triggered at the higher reaches of Shamshabari Range resulted in one JCO, three jawans and one civilian porter getting trapped in the frontier district of Kupwara,” said defence spokesman, Col
NN Joshi.