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US to assist in Pakistan’s search for 135 buried in avalanche

Associated Press

  April 09, 2012

The U.S. sent a team of experts Sunday to help Pakistan search for 135 people buried a day earlier by a massive avalanche that engulfed a military complex in a mountain battleground close to the Indian border. At least 240 Pakistani troops and civilians worked at the site of the disaster at the entrance to the Siachen Glacier with the aid of search dogs and heavy machinery, said the army. But they struggled to dig through some 80 feet of snow, boulders and mud that slid down the mountain early Saturday morning.

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