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Snowfall traps nomads, livestock [1]

Nearly two dozen people are missing while thousands of sheep, goat and other livestock have perished in unprecedented snowfall which caught lakhs of Gujjars and Bakerwals unawares on the north western Himalayas, which divide Jammu region from Kashmir valley.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Western Himalaya [3], Livestock [4], Sheep [5], Natural Disasters [6], Tribals [7], Jammu (D) [8], Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
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