SRINAGAR, Sept 11: A doctor was killed and four tourists were injured on Tuesday when a glacier caved in at the hill resort of Sonamarg in Kashmir, police said.
A group of tourists were busy taking pictures at the mouth of the glacier at Thajiwas in Ganderbal district when it caved in, officials said.
“Zubir Ahmad Chowdary of Poonch came under snow slide at Thajwas Glacier, in the jurisdiction of Police Station Sonamarg and died on spot,” a police spokesman said.
Earlier in 2007, Thajwas Glacier, which according to glaciologists is fast shrinking, caved in and killed two tourists, three others were seriously injured in the incident.
