PUBLISHED : 16 Jan 2024 at 12: 48 Tourists stranded as a outcome of avalanches striking highways are airlifted to security by helicopter in Burqin County, Xinjiang province, China in this screengrab from social media video launched on Monday. BEIJING – Around 1,000 travelers stay stranded in a remote vacation town after avalanches hit China’s northwestern Xinjiang area with metres-high snow and unpredictable weathercondition restraining evacuation, state TELEVISION reported on Tuesday. Road gainaccessto to Hemu town, a beautiful location near the borders of Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia where the travelers were caught, hasactually been cut off by avalanches for anumberof days now. The town is located in Xinjiang’s Altay Prefecture where constant snowfall in some locations has lasted 10 days, it stated. The heavy snowfall activated lots of avalanches along big areas of high
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