Chandigarh: As per information received here, 10 people have died due to heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir over the last 24 hours.
Six Army men were killed when an avalanche hit an Army post and an Army patrol along the highly militarized Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Army post manned by 10 military personnel was buried under snow after an avalanche hit it overnight. In Army rescue operations carried out despite extremely hostile weather, an officer and a solider were rescued from the post. Rescuers recovered the bodies of three soldiers.
In a separate incident, an Army patrol was swept away by an avalanche in the same area causing death of three soldiers.
On Wednesday, four members of a family were killed when they were buried under an avalanche.