Season’s first: Kaghan cut-off due to heavy snowfall
Heavy rain and snowfall has also been reported in low-lying areas of Kaghan and Naran valley.
ABBOTABAD:
The first snowfall of winter in Kaghan has cut-off the area from the rest of the country. The valley has so far received between six inches and one foot of snow in intermittent downfall that started on Friday night, officials of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa administration told The Express Tribune. The officials said that a road connecting Kaghan to G-B has been blocked due to the snow and traffic has been diverted towards Kohistan via the Karakoram Highway. Heavy rain and snowfall has also been reported in low-lying areas of Kaghan and Naran valley during the past 48 hours, plummeting temperatures in the region.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 21st, 2012.
The first snowfall of winter in Kaghan has cut-off the area from the rest of the country. The valley has so far received between six inches and one foot of snow in intermittent downfall that started on Friday night, officials of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa administration told The Express Tribune. The officials said that a road connecting Kaghan to G-B has been blocked due to the snow and traffic has been diverted towards Kohistan via the Karakoram Highway. Heavy rain and snowfall has also been reported in low-lying areas of Kaghan and Naran valley during the past 48 hours, plummeting temperatures in the region.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 21st, 2012.