Indian army rescue teams from other parts of the region were trying to reach the Dawar army camp but were delayed by heavy fog, snow and cloud cover.  — Reuters (File Photo)

SRINAGAR: Two massive avalanches in snowbound regions of Indian-administered Kashmir killed at least 11 Indian soldiers, and at least eight others were feared trapped in a military camp that was partially buried under snow, an official said Thursday.

Col. K.S. Grewal said three of the soldiers were killed in the mountainous area of Sonamarg and eight were killed at a large army camp in Dawar, a town close to the heavily militarized cease-fire line that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

Hundreds of thousands of Indian troops are stationed along this de-facto border.

Both avalanches took place late Wednesday night.

Rescue workers in Dawar pulled out 13 survivors who were being treated at a local army hospital, Grewal said. Eight Indian soldiers there were still believed to be trapped under the snow, he said.

Dawar, in the frontier Gurez region, remains cut off from the rest of Kashmir for nearly five months every year as heavy snowfall and rains block road links to the region.

Army rescue teams from other parts of the region were trying to reach the Dawar army camp but were delayed by heavy fog, snow and cloud cover, Grewal said.

Amir Ali, a state government disaster management official, warned of more avalanches across mountainous parts of Indian-administered Kashmir.

Avalanches and landslides are common in the disputed Himalayan region. Last month, an avalanche killed seven Indian soldiers as they were clearing an army supply road. In 2010, 17 Indian soldiers died when a wall of snow and ice slammed into the Indian army's High Altitude Warfare School in Kashmir.