Qazikund (Jammu and Kashmir)/ Mumbai/ New Delhi, Feb 9: At least 17 people have been killed and several others injured in five separate incidents of snow avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir.
Rescue teams of the Jammu and Kashmir police, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Rashtriya Rifles have so far rescued 34 people who were trapped under a snow avalanche at Gulab Bagh in Qazigund.
The police have been asked by the Inspector General of Police (Jammu Zone), S P Vaid, to shift the people from avalanche-prone areas to safer places in the Jammu division.
Meanwhile, eighty passengers were airlifted by the Indian Air Force today from Udhampur.