[Global warming...] Cold kills 22 stuck in cars in heavy snow at Pakistan resort

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/cold-kills-22-stuck-in-cars-in-
heavy-snow-at-pakistan-resort/

ISLAMABAD (AP) — At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a
popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their
vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted,
officials said Saturday.

Most of the victims died of hypothermia, officials said. Among them was an
Islamabad police officer and seven other members of his family, fellow
police officer Atiq Ahmed said.

More than 4 feet (1 meter) of snow fell in the area of the Murree Hills
resort overnight Friday and early Saturday, trapping thousands of cars on
roadways, said Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. The snow was so
severe that heavy equipment brought in to clear it initially got stuck
during the night, said Umar Maqbool, assistant commissioner for the town
of Murree. Temperatures fell to minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 degrees
Fahrenheit).

Officials called in paramilitary troops and a special military mountain
unit to help. By late Saturday, thousands of vehicles had been pulled from
the snow but more than a thousand were still stuck, Ahmed said.

Most roads leading to the area’s resorts were largely cleared of snow by
late Saturday, and military troops were working to clear the rest, Maqbool
said. The military also converted army-run schools into relief camps where
they provided shelter and food for the tourists who had been rescued.

Emergency officials distributed food and blankets to people while they
were trapped in their snowed-in vehicles, but many died of hypothermia.
Others may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning after running their
car heaters for long periods of time, said rescue services physician Abdur
Rehman. As of late Saturday, the death toll included 10 men, 10 children
and two women, Rehman said.

In one instance, a husband and wife and their two children all died in
their car. In another, four young friends died together, he said.

Located 28 miles (46 kilometers) north of the capital of Islamabad, Murree
is a popular winter resort town that attracts well over a million tourists
annually. Streets leading into the town are often blocked by snow in
winter.

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Associated Press writer Asim Tanveer contributed to this report.



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