| Karnah road reopens; Machil, Keran, Gurez still cut off | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 15: Dozens of villages, including near the Line of Control (LoC), in north Kashmir district of Kupwara and Bandipora, remained cut off with their respective tehsil and district headquarters due to accumulation of several feet of snow and slippery road conditions.
The road to Karnah from district headquarters Kupwara reopened on Saturday after remaining closed for several weeks due to snow. However, the border towns of Machil, Keran and Gurez remained cut off due to slippery road conditions and accumulation of snow.
Traffic was on Saturday resumed on Kupwara-Karnah road after remaining suspended for several weeks due to snowfall, an official of Police Control Room (PCR), Kupwara told UNI over phone this morning. He said traffic was resumed after the snow clearance operation on the road was completed on Friday. The sky is cloudy but weather was still dry, he said.
However, he said the Kupwara-Keran and Kupwara-Machil roads remained closed. The snow clearance operation was going on from both sides, he said. Due to closure of these roads, dozens of other villages near the LoC also remained cut off from tehsil and district headquarters.
Meanwhile, the road from Bandipora to Gurez, a border town surrounded by Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) from three sides, also remained closed due to accumulation of several feet of snow at Razdan pass. Due to closure of this road, over 20 border areas, including Neeru, also remained cut off from district headquarter Bandipora. |
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