Two persons were buried alive and two others went missing on Tuesday, 22 January in an avalanche in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district.
Police said the avalanche hit Trigam village around 3 pm, burying two persons under it. The deceased have been identified as Muhammad Rafiq and Sumerna.
"These people were on their way home when the avalanche struck," a police officer said, adding that efforts were on to locate the missing persons.
The Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was closed on Tuesday after a snow avalanche blocked both tubes of the Jawahar tunnel on Qazigund side, police said.
The police said, avalanche forced suspension of traffic movement on the arterial road connecting Kashmir to rest of the country.
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Topics: Jammu and Kashmir Avalanche Snow
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