Shimla, Dec. 14 -- As many as 170 stranded students, including 90 from Maharashtra, in tourist resort Kufri amid heavy snowfall, have been rescued.
Superintendent of Police from Shimla OP Jamwal said the rescue operation, which was launched late Friday night, ended at 0400 hrs this morning.
Ms Jamwal said the tourists got stuck in snowfall near Kufri on Friday evening.
At around 2000 hrs, tourist buses, proceeding towards Manali, skidded at Fagu and got stranded due to snowfall.
Dhalli SHO Rajkumar and his team rescued the students and took them to safer place.
When the team was coming back after clearing towards Hassan Valley after clearing Charrabara-Kufri section of the road in which 300 vehicles were stranded, they found more than 80...