7 COPS KILLED IN AVALANCHES IN VALLEY

■ 11 people including seven cops have been killed and one person is missing as heavy snowfall wreaked havoc across Kashmir Valley and parts of Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir.

■ THE CASUALTIES took place in a series of avalanches and shooting of stones along the Srinagar-Jammu highway and other places. Also, extensive damage has been caused to both public and private properties mainly in the Kashmir Valley.

■ THE RESCUERS were able to pull out two policemen alive while seven others had already died.

■ IN A separate incident, a couple died after they were swept by an avalanche in the Valley’s Anantnag district on Thursday. The rescuers, however, succeeded in pulling out their two children alive.