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  • Kashmir Avalanche: 'My Baby's Toy Torch Saved me From Death'

    02/01/2020 11:48:19 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    BBC ^ | Feb. 1, 2020 | Farhat Javed
    "There was nothing but horrible signs of death under the snow," Shakila recalls. "My 11-month-old daughter was on one side of me, and the dead body of my sister-in-law on the other." Shakila's village, Surgun, was the worst hit in a series of deadly avalanches which killed more than 75 people in the Neelum valley in Pakistani-administered Kashmir in January. Dozens of others were injured and hundreds lost their homes. It was the remote valley's heaviest snowfall in a century. Shakila spent more than six hours buried under snow - there was little warning the avalanche was coming. "It was...