MANSEHRA/ALPURI: At least 52 people were feared dead and scores of others injured when an avalanche slammed into a remote hamlet in Kandian Tehsil of Kohistan district late on Wednesday night.

Inclement weather hampered rescue work in the mountainous area of Saroo in Bagro Dara. Local people retrieved bodies and injured from a number of houses buried under snow.

The village is about 70km off Dassu, the district headquarters of Kohistan, and there is no paved road in the area. “We have received information that six houses were destroyed and around 25 others were damaged,” Dr Rehman said, quoting some people who have managed to come out of the area.