Srinagar: Bodies of seven policemen were on Friday extricated from a police post hit by an avalanche near
Jawahar Tunnel in Kulgam district last evening, even as heavy snowfall in Kashmir claimed two more lives in Anantnag.
While two cops were rescued, another was missing in the Kulgam incident, a police official said.
The rescued police personnel were shifted to hospital where their condition is stated to be stable, he said.
In the second incident, a couple died after their house was buried in a snowslide in Anantnag district on Thursday evening, but rescue teams managed to pull out their two children alive.
On the police post incident, the official said an avalanche hit the north portal of Jawahar Tunnel on the Qazigund side in Kulgam district on Thursday evening.
While ten cops were able to rush to safety, ten others were trapped.