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Avalanche kills Swedish skier in IHK

By AFP
January 19, 2018

SRINAGAR: A Swedish tourist was killed Thursday when an avalanche tore through a Himalayan resort in held Kashmir popular with skiers, police said. The 25-year-old victim was skiing with a fellow Swede in Gulmarg, a hill resort in Kashmir frequented by families and winter adventurers alike, when the avalanche barrelled down the slopes. Rescuers found one of them alive and "safe" in the snow but his fellow skier was killed in the deluge, said local police superintendent Imtiyaz Hussain.