2 dead in J&K avalanche as rain, snowfall lash the valley

Rain and snowfall lashed many parts of north India on Tuesday, with two people getting killed in an avalanche in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Eighty-seven people, 70 of them students, were rescued after their two buses got stuck in heavy snowfall in Himachal Pradesh. The students and the staff from an institute in Lucknow were on a trip to the state when they were caught in bad weather between the tourist towns of Kufri and Chharabra in Shimla district, police said.