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Heavy snowfall leaves Kashmir Valley inaccessible

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Press Trust of India Srinagar
Last Updated : Jan 29 2013 | 2:34 PM IST

Snowfall, which began yesterday, has continued and resulted in the snapping of electricity and water supply lines in several parts of the Valley, official sources said.

Although the snow has been cleared from almost all major roads of the Valley, it is learnt that many interior roads are still covered with snow.

An official of the disaster management cell said that the ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir had received the highest snowfall with three feet of fresh snow accumulated there.

While most places in the Valley have received around 1.5 feet of fresh snow since yesterday, Srinagar city itself got around five inches of snow.

The snowfall has forced closure of the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only all-weather road link between Kashmir and the rest of the country.

An official of the traffic department said that the road was closed yesterday afternoon as a precautionary measure in anticipation of the heavy snowfall.

An official at the Srinagar International Airport added that the snowfall has also resulted in cancellation of all flights to and from the state's summer capital.

  

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First Published: Oct 06 2010 | 8:40 AM IST

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