Heavy snows hit quake survivors in Indian Kashmir

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SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — Survivors of October's killer earthquake spent a second sleepless night as continued heavy snowfall collapsed tents and makeshift shelters in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

"We couldn't sleep for the second-straight night," said Imtiaz Hussain from the northern Uri sector, one of the two worst-hit areas in the October 8 quake.

"Until midnight it was snowing heavily and we were out in turns removing snow from our temporary sheds to prevent them from collapsing," he said.

The 7.6 magnitude earthquake left some 1,300 people dead in Indian Kashmir and more than 150,000 homeless.

Authorities have accommodated the homeless in temporary sheds and tents, but there have been numerous reports of shelters caving in from the heavy snow. One...