Administration of Rawalpindi and Islamabad closed the roads going to Murree and Galiyat due to a large number of vehicles entering the hill station owing to heaving snowfall.
Thousands of tourists entered the hill station on Friday to witness the snowfall causing heavy traffic jams on Murree-Islamabad Motorway. The authorities decided to close all kinds of traffic going towards the hill station to avoid a further brutal traffic jam.
Meanwhile, the Motorway police and local administration are busy helping the tourists who had been stuck in their cars in the heavy traffic jam. The process of sending the cars back from Murree has also been started.
Taking to Twitter, Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Hamza Shafqat wrote that all the routes from Islamabad to Murree have been closed.
Roads leading to Murree from Islamabad are hereby closed in public interest because of traffic jams and rush of visitors. Everyone is requested to plz postpone their plans for now. Entry from Islamabad will stay closed till Sunday Night
— Office of Deputy Commissioner Islamabad (@dcislamabad) January 7, 2022
The decision was taken keeping in view the rush of tourists and traffic jams in Murree. The commissioner has also requested the citizens to postpone their plan to the hill station, he added.
