Including six Italian 17 tourist stranded in snow bound Lahaul Spiti
Braving extremely coldwave and minus 15 to minus 20 degrees temperature As many as 17 tourist are stranding in different places of Lahaul Spiti district, district administration said that six Italian are stranded at Kee monestry and rest others in three homestay units.
Superintendent of police Mayanka Chaudhary today visited various vulnerable heavy snow affected areas to acess the possibility of more avalanche in the district.
He said that 17 tourists are stranded in Kaza including six foreigners. Information was received from a shop from Spiti subdivision Monday.
Among the tourists who are staying at Snow Flax homestay at Kaza include Amit, Vikas Anil Tushir, Naveen Rana, Manish , Deepak Malik and Rehnat.
In Dhunkar Home Stay, Jatin Dhare, Pratit Pingle, Vijay Jawwalker and Soulful Spiti home stay Shubhra Mittal.
At Kee monestry Italian national Andrea Marzzoleni, Marco Montanar, Nicolo Grimaudo, Susanna Molteni, Veronica Acoia and Tiziana Landoni are staying.
Message of well being Sent through V-Sat to their friends.
He said that after having information the family members of the snowbound tourist are contacted to inform about well being of stranded . The mobile connectivity is also affected by heavy snowfall in the subdivision.
Beside this other tourist may be at Kibber, Chhicham, Kangcga and Tabo. Since there is no road and mobile connectivity at these places as with improvement in weather conditions communication would be made functional.
Administration said that border road organisation has deployed JCB and snowcutter to open the road and deploy the workforce ti repair the mobile connectivity in the snowbound area. Due to 60 hrs long snow blizzard and heavy snowfall snapped the road and communication services and information is being conveyed through wireless satelite phone and walky takee . Superintendent of police Lahaul Spiti MAYANK CHOUDHARY could be contacted on the mobile number 95821-89342.
As per inputs received from BRO, a Machine is deputed by BRO for restoration of road from Sumdo to Lari, second Machine is deputed by BRO for restoration from Lari towards Kaza and the machine which was deputed by BRO for restoration of road from Kaza towards Tabo has not done road restoration today due to mechanical failure.
Light and communication network are not available yet. All over situation remain peaceful.
