SRINAGAR, Jan 17 (2002): Three Indian soldiers were killed and two others injured when a huge tree fell on their bunker in Indian-administered Kashmir overnight, a police spokesman said Thursday.
The soldiers were manning their bunker along the Line of Control – – the de facto border dividing Indian and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir — when the Chinar tree was uprooted during a blizzard and toppled over.
“Three soldiers died on the spot, while two were removed to hospital with serious wounds,” the spokesman said.
The Kashmir Valley has witnessed heavy snow and blizzards in the past two days.
Four Muslim porters working with Indian border guards in Kashmir and an Indian soldier died in two avalanches Tuesday evening in Uri and Kupwara districts near the disputed border with Pakistan.
