Approximately 1,500 travellers including women, children and elderly persons have been rescued and 570 of them accommodated at Army Camp at 17th Mile, the release said
The adverse weather conditions also forced the suspension of traffic on the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway around 5.30 pm, leaving thousands of Valley-bound vehicles stranded.
The 300-km long highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was closed
People throughout the Kashmir Valley greeted the snowfall that will replenish the perennial water reservoirs in the mountains
Reports of 7 to 8 feet of fresh snowfall in the higher reaches and 1 to 2 feet in the plains in the past 24 hours indicate that this has been the heaviest snowfall of the season so far in J&K