Reports say rescue teams were able to save one person, the BBC said.

"We have found some bodies but most are still to be recovered," a regional police chief, Ataullah Wazir, said.

The deaths occurred in a remote area of Kohistan, about 210 miles northeast of Peshawar, near a region that was hit by a devastating earthquake in October. One official said it was possible a tremor had triggered the avalanche.

More than 73,000 people were killed in the October earthquake that left at least 3 million people homeless, according to officials in Pakistan.