{"id":94372,"date":"2026-03-16T22:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=94372"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:05:20","slug":"over-220-passengers-rescued-after-snow-traps-31-vehicles-at-j-ks-sinthan-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/over-220-passengers-rescued-after-snow-traps-31-vehicles-at-j-ks-sinthan-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 220 passengers rescued after snow traps 31 vehicles at J-K\u2019s Sinthan Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anantnag, Mar 16: Over 220 passengers were rescued late on Sunday after 31 vehicles got stranded at Sinthan Top due to a sudden and heavy spell of snowfall, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The high-altitude pass was blocked following the fresh snowfall, prompting an immediate SOS from the stranded travellers, they said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An official told news agency Kashmir News Service, that a joint rescue operation was launched by the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) and the Jammu and Kashmir Police.<\/p>\n<p>The official said the rescue teams worked under challenging weather conditions for several hours to evacuate the stranded people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All 220 passengers were safely evacuated along with their vehicles. The operation was successfully concluded around 11:30 pm after they were escorted to Kokernag town.<\/p>\n<p>No casualties were reported in the incident, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A senior police officer told Kashmir News Service, that timely coordination between the agency and the police department ensured the safe rescue of all passengers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The officer advised travellers to check weather and road conditions before undertaking journeys in high-altitude areas and to strictly adhere to advisories to avoid such incidents.-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(KNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anantnag, Mar 16: Over 220 passengers were rescued late on Sunday after 31 vehicles got stranded at Sinthan Top due to a sudden and heavy spell of snowfall, officials said. The high-altitude pass was blocked following the fresh snowfall, prompting an immediate SOS from the stranded travellers, they said. &nbsp; An official told news agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94374,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94372\/revisions\/94374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}