"The soldier, who was immediately retrieved and evacuated to the nearest medical facility, could not be revived by the medical team," defence spokesperson Colonel S.Lance Havildar Bhawan Tamang, one of the two soldiers rescued earlier from beneath several feet of deep snow after he and his colleague were swept away by the avalanche, succumbed to his injuries at a medical facility in the area close to the Line of Control (LoC). Immediate rescue drills resulted in one soldier being rescued while the second soldier is still missing.In a similar incident two Army jawans were swept away when an avalanche triggered by a mild earthquake hit an Army post in Biamah area at an altitude of 17,500 feet above sea level close to the Line of Control (LoC) in Kargil sector. Gen. Hooda, Northern Command chief, has expressed his deep condolences to the family of the victim.Lt. The victim was a resident of Vallaramapuram village of Thirunelvelli district of Tamil Nadu.

A tenth soldier Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad, a resident of Betadur village in Dharwad district of Karnataka, was miraculously pulled out alive from an ‘arctic tent’ buried under 25 feet of frost and snow though in critical condition by the rescuers on February 8, six days after the incident.Col. Goswami said. D. The Kashmir Valley with neighbouring areas is experiencing moderate to heavy rainfall for the past two days. The avalanche prone areas which come under the custom gazebo canopy warning are located at an altitude of above 3,000 metres and fall in frontier districts of Kupwara, Baramula, Bandipur and Kargil and Gandarbal.N.S.A report from Baramulla said that traffic along the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road was affected after a major portion of it in Lagama area of Uri in north Kashmir began sinking following heavy rains on Friday. Several parts of the Himalayan region have also received snowfall, reports said." Turtuk in Nubra Valley at a height of 10,000 feet above sea level is pretty close to the Line of Control (LoC) and was part of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir prior to 1971 war. Tamang was a resident of Lopshu village in Darjeeling tehsil of West Bengal.D. The advisory, issued by Chandigarh-based Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE) which comes under the Ministry of Defence, will remain effective over the next 24 hours beginning 5 pm on Friday.."He added, "The rescued soldier is critical and is being evacuated to the nearest military hospital. Meanwhile, a ‘medium danger’ avalanche warning was on Friday issued for higher areas of Jammu and Kashmir, advising people not to venture into these areas. All efforts are being made to rescue the missing soldier".

But his colleague Sepoy Vijay Kumar K went who went missing in the mishap and his frozen lifeless body was retrieved from under fifteen feet of snow accumulated in the area of avalanche occurrence three days later by the rescuers. But he too died in Army’s Research and Referral Hospital, Delhi three days later.In the second such incident in past nine days, an Army jawan has died and another is missing after a military foot patrol was hit by an avalanche in Turtuk area of Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday morning. N.The defence spokesperson said that "massive efforts" are underway to rescue the other jawan "in spite of inclement weather in the area.