KABUL (SW) \u2013 Hundreds of passengers, including women and children, got stranded on the main Herat – Ghor highway due to heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n
In conversation over mobile phone with Salam Watandar, a number of stranded passengers said they have been stranded along the highway since last night due to snowfall and severe storms in the Band-e Bayan area. The passengers said they have been stranded on this route for three days and nights now.<\/p>\n
They said to have contacted local officials in Ghor province several times yesterday, but so far they have not received any help.<\/p>\n
Fazl al-Haq and Farida Ahmad, two such passengers, said more than 150 passengers and dozens of small and large vehicles are stranded on the Herat – Ghor highway, and that the government and transport companies have done nothing to clean and reopen the route.<\/p>\n
Representatives of transport companies said in this connection that despite contacts with local officials in Ghor, nothing has been done to rescue stranded passengers.<\/p>\n
Local Ghor officials have not commented, but Ashraf Haqshenas, deputy spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works, has said teams have been dispatch to clean up the area for transportation.<\/p>\n
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