New Delhi: The unseasonal snow and rainfall in North India left at least 50 people dead since Sunday while over 25 sustained burn injuries due to lightning in various parts of Uttar Pradesh.
The Kashmir Valley continues to remain cut off from the rest of the country. Seventeen people, including two children and a soldier, died of cold conditions, landslides and flash floods in the state on Tuesday.
Srinagar experienced the heaviest snowfall in the past 15 years during March, recording 89 mm of snow since Monday. The previous record for the month was 72.3 mm. Road and air traffic have remained suspended.
Five pilgrims had died of cold on Sunday night on their way to the Vaishnodevi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir. However, pilgrimage to the shrine resumed on Tuesday with the improvement in the weather conditions.
Six devotees, who fell ill, have been shifted to the hospital taking the number of hospitalised people to 15. Authorities have begun evacuating over 5,000 stranded pilgrims at different places en route the cave shrine.
Incessant rains, accompanied by lightning, hailstorm and heavy snowfall lashed some other parts of northern India on Tuesday.
Met officials said two extra-tropical systems had formed over the north-western and eastern regions which have led to rainfall and a dip in the temperatures in most parts of northern India.
(With agency inputs)
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