MURREE:As snow is falling in Murree intermittently, the city administration has closed all connecting roads to the hilly station and banned tourists’ entry after 5pm, according to a report on Sunday.

A new spell of snowfall is continued in Murree and since morning, the hilly resort has received over 6 inches snow. After recent blizzard tragedy here in which at least 22 stranded tourists died, the administration has become very careful. The Rawalpindi Chief Traffic Officer said that as many as 1170 vehicles of tourists had entered Murree but the traffic police would not allow more than 8,000 vehicles.

He said for the safety of vacationers, the administration had closed road from Kaldana to Gulyat. He asked the tourists to take a substitute route. He said after it becomes slippery the Masyari Link Road had also been closed. He said that vacationers could enter from Lower Topa.