MIRPUR (AJK): Jan 14 (APP): The death toll of those buried alive under snow avalanches at various locations in the snow-clad Neelam valley and other upper reaches of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) has risen to 75 besides injuring of 50 others. AJK government said that the figure of the casualties could rise as the utilities for burial of at least 70 bodies and the food items for over a hundred affected families had been dispatched by the civil authorities with the assistance of the Pak army to the affected areas where relief and rescue operations were in progress. AJK government sources told APP on Tuesday that the ill-fated persons who lost lives in the catastrophe included 69 in Neelam valley and one each in Kotli, Rawalakot and Sudhanoti districts. “The AJK government is fully engaged in rescue, relief and rehabilitation process with the assistance of the Pakistan Army in the affected areas especially in the worst calamity-hit Neelam valley in Muzaffarabad division”, said AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan while chairing a high level meeting in the State’s metropolis. At least 56 houses were totally damaged after they buried under the terrible snow-avalanches. The prime minister directed the … Continue reading Snow avalanches, stormy rains claim 75 human lives in AJK