Rescue workers used bulldozers yesterday to dig through huge banks of snow following a massive avalanche, which engulfed a military complex and buried at least 135 people close to the Indian border.

Pakistani soldiers are digging for a second day to find 135 people buried by a massive avalanche that engulfed a military complex near the Indian border.

Pakistani soldiers dug into a massive avalanche in a mountain battleground close to the Indian border today, searching for at least 117 of their colleagues buried when the wall of snow engulfed a military complex.

An avalanche has smashed into a Pakistani army base on a Himalayan glacier along the Indian border, burying around 100 soldiers, the military said.

The Indian and Pakistani armies will stop firing across the disputed Kashmir frontier from midnight tonight in a further easing of tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours, officials said.