Nine people were killed as torrential rains lashed northern India while one person froze to death and thousands were stranded on a highway in Kashmir after heavy snowfalls triggered avalanches, police said Tuesday. A police spokesman said nine deaths occurred through rain-related incidents such as house collapses in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where another seven people were injured and traffic disrupted.
The bad weather also brought unexpected winter rains to the national capital New Delhi and heavy snow to Indian held Kashmir.
On Monday seven troopers were killed when avalanches smashed into their mountain barracks at Jawahar Tunnel in the south of Indian-administered Kashmir.
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