Shimla, Dec. 28 -- Himachal Police teams on Saturday rescued several vehicles and travellers who were stranded as traffic from Solang Valley to the Atal Tunnel was halted due to heavy snowfall warnings.

Manali DSP KD Sharma told ANI, that a rescue operation was launched yesterday after over 2000 vehicles were stuck between Solang Valley and Atal Tunnel due to adverse weather conditions. Sharma confirmed that nearly 1800 vehicles have been safely evacuated, while around 200 vehicles remained stuck.

"Yesterday, we closed the movement of vehicles from Solang Valley to Atal tunnel due to the weather forecast. Over 2000 vehicles were stuck and we began the rescue operation which continued till morning, today. 1800 vehicles have been evacuate...