2 killed,10 missing, 100 stranded as J&K gets heaviest snowfall this season
Two persons were killed, while 10 others went missing and hundreds remained stranded on Friday due to the heaviest spell of snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir so far. A couple was killed while their two children were rescued after an avalanche destroyed their home in Kokernag area of Anantnag district late on Thursday. Six policemen, two Fire and Emergency Services personnel and two prisoners went missing after another avalanche hit a police post near the Jawahar Tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar Highway . Relief and rescue efforts on Friday have traced one of the missing, police said. Multiple avalanches occurred at many other places in the Kashmir Valley, however, due to lack of communication and connectivity the extent of casualties or damage, if any, was not yet clear Authorities have shifted 78 families from avalanche-prone areas of Waltangoo Nar and Kund in Kulgam district to safer places. Seven families were shifted to the Khag police station after an avalanche hit the...