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J&K: Avalanche strikes Army post in Machhil, three soldiers killed

According to defence sources, three Army personnel lost their lives while one was injured after an avalanche hit an Army post in Kupwara's Machil Sector on Friday.

jammu and kashmir avalanche, kupwara avalanche, kupwara news, kupwara army men dead, bandipora, tangdhar avalanche, Dawar avalanche, indian expressOn the basis of information received from Snow & Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE), low danger avalanche warning has been issued for various high-altitude areas, an official spokesman.
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Three Army personnel lost their lives while one was injured after an avalanche hit an Army post in Kupwara’s Machil Sector on Friday. “In an unfortunate incident of avalanche in Machhil sector, the Army lost three valiant soldiers,” an army official said. The bodies of the soldiers have been recovered, the official said, adding further details were awaited.

After a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan on Wednesday, a government agency had issued an avalanche warning in several districts of Jammu and Kashmir. The Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment had warned of level-3 avalanche in higher reaches of Baramulla district and low danger warning of level-2 in Kupwara, Bandipore, Shopian and Kargil Districts,

In December last year, two soldiers were killed in an avalanche along the Line of Control in Kashmir’s Gurez sector. Lance Naik Marigendra Nath Pramanik and Sepoy Shiv Singh were part of an operational team which was serving in the formidable heights along the LoC and got swept away during a snow slide, along with another soldier, on December 11.

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