Nine people, including six travelling in a passenger vehicle, were missing after an avalanche hit the Kupwara-Tangdhar road in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday afternoon.
A search and rescue operation is underway but bad weather is an obstacle, a traffic police official told PTI.
Teams of police, the Indian Army, State Disaster Response Fund, and a mountain rescue team are looking for those missing, ANI reported.
The vehicle was on its way from Kupwara to Karnah when the mishap took place around 4 pm, according to Greater Kashmir. The six passengers are believed to be trapped under a huge mound of snow, police officials told the newspaper.
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