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November 29, 2009 | Security personnel rescue stranded passengers in snow-hit Himachal | Manali (HimachalPradesh): The Border Road Organisation (BRO) launched an operation to rescue passengers and vehicles stranded by heavy snowfall in Himachal Pradesh. Manali-Leh road received
heavy snowfall and snowstorms on November 9-10 and again on November 14-16 blocking
the road and stranding several tourists, private vehicles as well as other equipments
across the road. "In the normal circumstances we must not have cleared this road
again. As we came to know that lots of vehicles are stranded across Rohtang. Due
to this we are putting these efforts to make the road through so that all the
stranded people and vehicles and equipments and private people can come across,"
said S.K. Doon, Commander 38 BRTF of Border Road Organisation. "We have three
teams working for clearing the snow here. One team is working from Muddy upwards
towards Rohtang, second from Muddy towards Rana Falls and the third from Rana
Falls upwards. We have almost 20-25 soldiers working on this," said Satish, a
soldier of 38 BRTF. Border Road organization has deployed seven bulldozers to
carry out this operation. |
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