Severe winter weather in Afghanistan and Pakistan claims more lives as avalanches kill 55 people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, bringing the death toll to 126 since Sunday
People walk on a snow-covered road in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, January 13, 2020.
The disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir was the worst-affected area, with 55 deaths in the past 24 hours, said Waseem Uddin, a spokesman for Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority. Earlier on Tuesday, Ahmad Raza Qadri, the minister for the disaster management authority in Kashmir, said they had declared a state of emergency in the affected areas. Military helicopters were being used to evacuate people as authorities struggle to reopen highways and reach people cut off by heavy snowfall and avalanches in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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