A 12-year-old girl was found alive on Wednesday after being buried for 18 hours when an avalanche in Azad Kashmir engulfed the family house.Samina Bibi recalled screaming and shouting for help as she lay trapped in a room under the snow. The death toll from Monday's avalanches in Neelum Valley rose to 74, according to officials, as rescuers continued to recover bodies.

Samina was one of the lucky ones. "I thought I would die there," she told Reuters from a hospital bed in Muzaffarabad, where she and dozens of other injured people were receiving treatment after being airlifted out of the avalanche area.