Kashmir, India – At approximately 4 am on January 25, 2017 an avalanche buried a residential home in the Badoogam village in the Tulail area of the Gurez sector in the Bandipora District near the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir, India. A couple and two of their children did not survive.
The avalanche collapsed the structure. Rescuers included local volunteers, police, and army teams. The avalanche victims include “Mehraj-ud-Din Lone, 55, wife Azizi, 50, son Irfan, 22, and daughter Gulshan, 19” (TheHindu.com). Lone’s other son was rescued by authorities and taken to the hospital.
There are few details available about this avalanche.
Read more about the avalanche in Bandipora in Kashmir from the following sources:
- BrighterKashmir.com
- TheHindu.com
- NDTV.com
- FinancialExpress.com
- IndianExpress.com
- TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com
- SiFy.com
