2月20日，印控克什米尔地区发生多起雪崩，造成至少154人死亡，另有200多人失踪。据悉，该地区虽然遭遇到15年来最大的降雪，但各地的食物储存充足，不至于发生饥荒。外电报道如下：Avalanches and slides triggered by heavy weekend snowfall in India's portion of Kashmir have killed at least 154 people and left 200 missing, an official said Monday.

Much of the region remained cut off for a third straight day, blanketed under the heaviest snowfall in 15 years.

At least 117 people were killed in avalanches that began Sunday night in a series of Kashmiri villages south of Srinagar, Kashmir's main city, said police officer Imtiyaz Ahmed, who said the toll of the dead and missing remained incomplete.

Elsewhere in the region, three separate landslides killed eight people, police said.

Avalanche表示“雪崩，山崩”，也有“极大的量，洪水”的意思。例如：an avalanche of mail.（大量的信件）。

（中国日报网站编）