By SPA
New Delhi : At least 15 people, including seven soldiers were feared to have been buried alive after an avalanche hit an army post in India-administered Kashmir on Wednesday, a news report said according to DPA.
“Seven army personnel and eight civilian porters have gone missing after they were buried under a massive snow avalanche in Baramulla district,” defence spokesman Lieutenant Colonel A K Mathur told PTI news agency.
Army and the police conducted search operations to find the “missing” porters and soldiers, near the Line of Control (LoC) a de facto border between Indian and Pakistani administered Kashmir.
The Baramulla district lies 60 kilometres west of state capital Srinagar.
Mathur said the chances of survival were bleak and no bodies had been recovered so far.
But police sources told PTI that two bodies were recovered, though the search would continue on Thursday since operations were suspended on Wednesday night.