Srinagar: Three soldiers were killed and another was injured after a snow avalanche swept away an army post in Machil sector of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday.
Official sources said that a post of army’s 21 Rajput came under an avalanche at around 4:30 pm at Sona Pandi Gali (SPG) in Machil near line of control.
Four soldiers went missing and an immediately search operation was launched, leading to the recovery of all the soldiers. They were evacuated to hospital where one of them was declared brought dead while two others succumbed to injuries. The remaining soldier was shifted to army’s 92 base hospital Badamibaghhere and is to be stable. The deceased have been identified as Havaldar Kamlesh Kumar, Niak Balbeer and Sepor Rajinder.
