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Avalanches nine soldiers in Indian Kashmir
SRINAGAR: At least nine Indian soldiers on duty in the mountains of Kashmir were ed in avalanches overnight with several others missing, officials said Thursday.
Two avalanches swept through army camps in Dawar and Sonamarg, both near the heavily-militarised Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
A defence spokesman who declined to be named said that six soldiers were ed at Dawar and 15 others were dug out of the snow, while three soldiers died at Sonamarg, a popular destination for Indian tourists in the summer.
“Efforts are underway to rescue the trapped soldiers whose exact number is being ascertained,” said Lieutenant Colonel J.S. Brar, the military spokesman in the Indian Kashmir summer capital Srinagar.
The mountainous, Muslim-majority region of Kashmir was split in two in the aftermath of indep ence on the subcontinent when British rule ed in 1947.
Both India and Pakistan claim the whole territory, which is divided by the de facto border known as the Line of Control.
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