With communication lines down, residents can’t call ambulances or schedule operations
A jobless Indian devotee was admitted to hospital after he cut off his tongue and offered it to a Hindu goddess, police said on Wednesday. Doctors stitched the wound but said the man, identified as Suresh Kumar (24) may not be able to speak again.
No image available
/ 10 February 2005
Six people, including four children, were killed in three separate avalanches in Indian Kashmir on Thursday as thousands of motorists remained stranded on a highway due to heavy snowfall, police said. The Indian air force has started dropping food packets to more than 3Â 000 people stranded on a 50km stretch of highway.
Cross-border shelling between Indian and Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir and along the international frontier continued on Monday but at a lower intensity than in recent days.