SRINAGAR: Dozens of far-flung and remote villages, including those near the Line of Control (LoC), were cut off with their respective district and tehsil headquarters due to fresh snowfall in north Kashmir, since Sunday night.
It was snowing heavily in the entire north Kashmir, officials said.
”We have closed Sadhna Top, Z-Gali and Phirkiyan pass due to moderate to heavy snowfall since last night,” they said. However, the road between Bandipora to border town of Gurez remained closed due to accumulation of snow, particularly at Razdan top. It was snowing since early this morning, a Police Control Room (PCR) official said over phone from Bandipora.
The road is likely to reopen in March or April, he added. Roads from Kupwara to border towns of Keran, Karnah, Machil, Tangdhar and dozens of other far-flung and remote villages, including those near LoC, remained closed.
There was fresh snowfall since last night, a PCR official said from Kupwara. He said about six inches to one feet of fresh snowfall had accumulated at Z-Gali, Phirkiyan pass and Sadhna top, where 11 people, including an officer of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), were killed in a snow avalanche in January this year. (AGENCIES)
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