WORLD BRIEFING / INDIA
An avalanche hit an Indian army post in Kashmir, killing seven soldiers, an army spokesman said.
The army rescued eight soldiers who were partially buried by the cascading snow at an altitude of 14,000 feet in the Shasmbari forest, said Col. K. Umamaheswar.
The region, close to India’s de facto border with Pakistan, is 80 miles north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state.
Frequent rain and heavy snow often trigger avalanches in Kashmir, which is divided between neighboring India and Pakistan and claimed by both.
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