Srinagar: Ten police personnel were trapped after a snow avalanche hit a police post near Jawahar Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Thursday. The state has been receiving heavy snowfall and the Valley was cut off from the rest of the country for the second day on Thursday.
The Kashmir Zone police announced on Twitter that a rescue operation is underway. Meanwhile a top police official said “Ten policemen are safe, while ten others are trapped under snow.” He added that the state police, Army and local residents were involved in the rescue operations.