Kashmir Avalanche: Rescue Operations Over, Six Critical

Srinagar, Feb 9 – Rescue operations were over by Tuesday morning for people in the Indian Army’s high altitude warfare training camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, which had been buried under a massive avalanche, an army spokesman said. Monday’s avalanche killed one officer and 16 soldiers.

Seventeen people have been injured, out of which six have multiple fractures and are in critical condition, the spokesman added.

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