The twin incidents came barely few hours after an Army major was killed Ganderbal district, also in an avalanche. An army spokesperson said ten bodies have been recovered since an avalanche struck the camp in the Gurez sector on Wednesday night and a patrol team was buried under a separate avalanche earlier. A third of the total army fatalities in Kashmir valley between January 2007 and March 2012 were due to avalanches. At least 242 soldiers were killed in the Valley between 2007 and 2012, and out of these 62 were killed in different natural calamities, official records show. On February 3 last year, ten soldiers were killed after an avalanche hit Siachen Glacier, the world’s highest and coldest battlefield.

Source: Hindustan Times January 26, 2017 07:22 UTC