At least two students were killed due to avalanche at Reshun goal area here on Tuesday.

According to Booni police, the victims were playing at Reshun goal water nulla when hit by an avalanche.

The villagers and rescue workers rushed to the spot and retrieved the bodies of Sadam Hussain s/o Karamat and Aftab Ahmad.

The bodies were buried at a local graveyard.

ISLAMABAD, Apr 17 (Agencies): Toxic gases Tuesday hampered the search for 138 people buried by an avalanche at a high-altitude Pakistan army camp, as teams from the United States and Norway arrived at the site to help operations. A huge wall of snow crashed into the remote Siachen Glacier base high in the mountains in disputed Kashmir more than a week ago, smothering an area of one square kilometre (a third of a square mile).

Pakistani troops are set to dig a 130-feet tunnel in their search for 138 people buried in an avalanche in the Siachen sector, close to Indian borders, as the rescue operation entered its fifth day Thursday with no signs of survivors. Rescuers were focussing on six “priority points” at the army’s battalion headquarters in Gyari, which was hit by the avalanche on April 7. “Work will start (on a) 130-feet-long horizontal tunnel with a diameter of three meters to attain access to the accommodation area,” the military said in a statement.

Hope was fading fast for surviors buried under tonnes of ice after military rescuers were hampered by fresh snowfall in an increasingly desperate search for 139 people, mostly soldiers, buried in an avalanche in Siachen sector, close to the Indian border.

Pakistan's military hoped for a miracle on Sunday as rescue teams searched for 124 soldiers and 11 civilians buried by a Himalayan avalanche near the Indian border, with no sign of survivors more 24 hours later.

The avalanche engulfed a Pakistani army battalion headquarters near a glacier early on Saturday, leaving snow up to 80 feet (25 metres) deep over an area a kilometre wide.

The victims are trapped in one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth, at an altitude of 15,000 feet (4,500 metres) near the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram mountain range.

Racing against time, Pakistani troops, aided by sniffer dogs and mechanical equipment, on Sunday frantically searched for 135 people, mostly soldiers, buried under dozens of feet of snow after a massive avalanche slammed into a key army camp in the Siachen sector near Indian border. Rescuers resumed the desperate search after suspending the operation late Saturday night because of darkness and poor weather, though there were no signs of survivors a day after avalanche hit the camp.

An avalanche has killed at least 45 people and buried 15 houses in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan, Press TV reports.
Nuristan's Deputy Governor Qazi Mohammad Nabi said the avalanche hit villages of Poshan and Ghadoor in Mandol district Sunday night.
He said most of the victims were women and children, adding that the number of casualties is expected to increase.
Earlier this month more than 50 people lost their lives in another avalanche in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Badakhshan.

An avalanche engulfed houses and cut off roads in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 45 people, the latest victims in the country's worst winter in 30 years.

Heavy snow blanketed 13 houses and blocked roads leading into a district of Nuristan province, near the border with Pakistan, preventing help from reaching avalanche victims, deputy provincial governor Mohammad Nabi Ahmadi said.

An entire village in northern Badakhshan province was covered by an avalanche almost a week ago, killing at least 50 people.

At least 11 houses and two school buildings have been damaged in an avalanche that hit the Tulail area of Gurez in Bandipore district of north Kashmir.

The police today said the avalanche caused damage in Abdulan, Chakwali and Malangam villages of the Tulail area. However, no one was injured in the incident.

The recent snowfall in the Kashmir valley and its upper reaches have triggered avalanches at different places during the past one week.

After the eruption of militancy in the state, residents of the Kashmir valley have often feared for their lives due to militant attacks or use of force by security forces during street protests. But this winter, which saw frequent spells of heavy snowfall, avalanches have emerged as the new killer. While recent avalanches led to the death of 18 Army men in Bandipore and Ganderbal districts, news of civilians being rescued from avalanche-prone areas have become the order of the day.