Srinagar: There was still no trace of a student who was buried under a huge snow avalanche alongwith two others on February 15 when they were on way to Tulail from Gurez in north Kashmir district of Bandipora.
Massive rescue operation by different agencies, including locals, police, Army and SDRF personnel, had so far not yielded any result, official sources told UNI on Monday.
However, a team of fresh experts have been airlifted from Bandipora to the area to trace the missing student Javed Ahmad Lone. The experts will join the rescue teams already present in the area today, they said.
Lone and Ali Mohammad and Arif Hussain were on way to their home at Tulail after appearing examination at Gurez on February 15 when they were hit by a huge snow avalanche at Check Nallah. However, Hussain and Ali were rescued in an injured condition on the same day and shifted to hospital.
However, they said, the rescue operation was being hampered due to threat of fresh avalanches in the area. Sniffer dogs were also pressed into service to recover Javid, they said.
Gurez, a border town surrounded by Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) remained cut off from district headquarter Bandipora for the past more than a month due to accumulation of snow and slippery road conditions, particularly at Razdan pass.
