23 tourists freeze to death in Murree, Pakistan

Murree, a hill town in Pakistan have recorded the deaths of 23 tourists after heavy rainfall and snowstorm trapped them in. In a video message, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said that the military has been mobilized to clear roads and rescue the trapped people.
A police spokesperson confirmed that over 100,000 cars had entered the scenic town of Murree in the past few days to visualize the unusually heavy snowfalls, causing an enormous traffic jam on the roads leading in and out. Rawalpindi and Islamabad administration have been trying their best to clear the area since Friday night, but there was a massive influx of people coming to Murree, Galiaat and Bariyaan, Sheikh Rashid said. As a result, authorities were unable to clear the area. The roads leading to Murree have been cordoned off.
The Punjab province chief minister’s office said Murree had been declared a “disaster area” and urged people to stay away.