ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 8 (UPI) -- Rescue teams Sunday sought possible survivors at a Pakistan army base in the Kashmir region where up to 135 people were buried by a massive avalanche.
A day-long search Saturday yielded no survivors, CNN reported.
"It's a very massive scale slide," Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Saturday. "They are under the slide but we haven't lost hope. The rescue work is on, and we are keeping our fingers crossed."
A blanket of rock and snow about the size of a city block entombed up to 135 people -- all but 11 of them Pakistani soldiers -- under 70 feet of snow Saturday, CNN said.
The base is in the Himalaya mountains on the Siachen Glacier, where thousands of Pakistani and Indian troops are based, a security official told the Pakistan News Service.
Both India and Pakistan claim the area and Kashmir has been partitioned between India and Pakistan since 1947.
The BBC said the the Siachen Glacier is known as the world's highest battlefield, with soldiers deployed at elevations up to 22,000 feet, but harsh weather there has killed more soldiers than combat.
