Snow Falls From Roof, Kills Elderly Woman In Trehgam Kupwara

Kupwara, Jan 6 : A massive block of snow fell from a roof and buried a 70-year-old woman just outside her residence in the Trehgam area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Wednesday.

Reports said that the woman, Rahmi Begam wife of Abdul Subhan Malik of Shah Mohalla Trehgam, had just ventured outside her house as a chunk of snow accumulated on their roof fell, burying her. She was dead before the family could evacuate her.    However, a police officer said that a police party has been deputed to the area to carry out further investigations in this regard.