There has been heavy snow in Kashmir for the past few days. Tribune photo: Amin War

Azhar Qadri
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, January 25

An army officer and four civilians have been killed as avalanches swept two locations in north and central Kashmir on Wednesday.
A police official in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district said an avalanche hit a camp of Territorial Army at Sonamarg resort. The police official said an army officer had died.
“There are also reports that some bodies are still buried, but that could not be immediately confirmed as the area is out of bounds,” the police official said.

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In another incident, four civilians were killed when an avalanche hit a house in a remote village in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district as the region faces one of the most widespread snow spell of recent years.
An official in Bandipora district said the four civilians were buried inside their house at Badogam village when it was hit by the avalanche. The official said the bodies of the four people, all belonging to the same family, were recovered early in the morning.
The dead included 50-year-old Habilullah, his wife, a daughter and a son.The snow is intermittently falling across the Kashmir Valley for the second consecutive day on Wednesday.