SRINAGAR : Dozens of remote and far-flung villages, including those near the Line of Control (LoC), remained cut off with their respective district and tehsil headquarters due to accumulation of snow on the roads .
Meanwhile, the 85-km-long road from Bandipora to border town of Gurez remained closed due to snow since December last year.
Official sources said that dozens of roads, including those connecting border towns of Keran, Karanah, Machil and other villages near the LoC with their district headquarters, remained closed as fresh snowfall was reported during the past 36 hours.
Machil had received about three feet of snow, Sadhana top four feet, Z-Gali five feet, Gurez one feet and Razdan top about three feet and Keran about half a feet.
The authorities have also issued a snow avalanche warning in all upper reaches in the Kashmir valley following fresh snowfall.
Dozens of villages, including those LoC also remained cut off with tehsil headquarters due to snowfall.
A teenager boy was killed and two others were injured when they were hit by a snow avalanche in Machil, Kupwara yesterday. (AGENCIES)
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