Nine people were killed when an avalanche hit the village of Restelica in southern Kosovo, officials said Sunday, adding to more than 500 killed in snow and bitter cold across Europe in the past tw

An avalanche has killed three bathers at a hot spring in northern Japan, where heavy snow also has paralyzed traffic and forced schools to close.

Jammu: Efforts to reopen the Jammu-Srinagar national highway were impeded with several avalanches hitting various areas of Ramban district, 180 km from here, this morning.

Srinagar witnesses coldest day of the season

Realising the danger faced by people of Chitral due to avalanches, a local youth has invented a machine to warn about movement of avalanche in mountains and highlands.

An avalanche coupled with heavy storm from Langtang Lirung Mountain has damaged around 50 houses in Langtang region in Rasuwa district, RSS reports.

Up to three million people in Afghanistan are facing hunger, malnutrition and disease after a severe drought wiped out their crops and extreme winter weather risks cutting off their access to vital

Two persons were killed in an avalanche, about 18 km from here, today on the Solang-Dhundhi road.
Border Roads Organisation (BRO) chief engineer (Project Rohtang Tunnel) PK Mahajan said the incident had taken place when a van in which they were travelling this morning was hit by an avalanche on the Solang-Dhundhi road and the vehicle rolled down.

Mahajan said BRO officials, who were coming fro

KISHTWAR, Mar 6: Five houses were completely damaged in an avalanche in remote village Ongie in Paddar area.

Reports said that in the wee hours of March 4, avalanche hit five houses in village Ongie.