Landslides Kill 31 in Pakistan's Kashmir*
Wednesday March 21, 2007 6:46 AM
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Heavy rains triggered landslides that
buried three homes in Pakistan's portion of Kashmir, leaving 31 people
dead, officials said Wednesday.
At least 21 people died when a landslide hit two homes Tuesday in Doba
Sayedan, a remote village in the mountainous Himalayan territory, said
Maj. Farooq Nasir, an army spokesman in the regional capital, Muzaffarabad.
Ten members of one family died when their home collapsed under a
landslide in Bagh, a town further south, police officer Mohammed Liaqat
said.