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North shivers, cold toll 54
New Delhi
Dec. 27.
The whole of North India shivered today with the Kashmir Valley remaining cut off from the rest of the country due to heavy snow with 16 more people succumbing to the bone-chilling cold taking the countrywide death toll to 54.
The fog, which threw road, rail and air traffic haywire during the past one week, lifted even as temperatures dipped and people experienced a sunless day.
Severe chill claimed 15 lives overnight in Uttar Pradesh and one in Himachal Pradesh where icy winds confined people indoors.
The 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu National highway, the only surface link between Kashmir Valley and the rest of the country, was closed to traffic after fresh snowfall rendered unsafe a 25-km stretch between Qazigund and Jawahar Tunnel.
All incoming and outgoing flights from Srinagar, including special Haj flights, were cancelled.
Heavy snowfall in many areas along the Indo-Tibetan border in Uttaranchal disrupted normal life. Mercury plummeted in Chamoli, Rudra Prayag, Pauri-Garhwal, Tehri-Garhwal and Uttarkashi districts owing to overnight snow. — PTI
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