Over 1k vehicles stranded in HP return to safety

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KULLU: Teams of state disaster response force (

SDRF

) and local police safely guided back to Manali over 1,000 vehicles stranded near north portal of

Atal Tunnel

after heavy snowfall on Monday.
Tourists remained stranded for more than six hours.
A police officer said that the operation continued till 1am as all vehicles were guided to safety.
Eight tourists, who were stranded at

Pangmo village

in

Spiti

, were also rescued by a team of police from Lahaul-Spiti.

Tourists hailing from Rajasthan and Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh were taken back to Spiti.