ISLAMABAD – Atleast 67 people were killed and others were missing afteravalanches in Pakistan Kashmir over the last 24 hours, senior governmentofficials said on Tuesday.
In neighboring India, at least 10 people were killed after severalavalanches hit the northern-part of Indian-administered Kashmir.
Two Pakistani officials said many villagers were still stranded in theavalanches in the Neelum Valley area following heavy rains that alsotriggered landslides.
Many people were reported missing and feared dead as rescue efforts gotunderway, one of the officials said.
A senior Indian police official said five soldiers were among the 10 killednear the border between India and Pakistan.
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The area is one of the world’s most militarily tense frontiers, where theneighboring armies have confronted each other over disputed territory fordecades.
Kashmir has been divided between Indian and Pakistan since theirindependence in 1947 and for decades tension on the border has left tens ofthousands dead.
In 2012, an avalanche engulfed a Pakistani army battalion headquarters nearthe Indian border killing at least 124 soldiers and 11 civilians.
