Kashmir, India – At approximately 5:45am on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 an avalanche struck an army camp near the Srinagar-Leh national highway in the Sonamarg area of the Ganderbal district of Jammu & Kashmir in India.
Seven soldiers were rescued, but Major Amit Sagar of the 115 Battalion and the High Altitude Warfare School was killed in the avalanche.
This avalanche struck within hours of the avalanche that killed four civilians in Bandipora in Kashmir.
There are few details available about this avalanche accident.
Read more about the avalanche in Sonamarg in Kashmir from the following sources:
- Business-Standard.com
- ABCNews.go.com
- TheHindu.com
- KashmirDispatch.com
- CentralChronicle.com
- IndianExpress.com
- NDTV.com
