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The Indian Air Force (IAF) have been conducting relentless rescue and relief operations in snowbound Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh airlifting stranded passengers on highways.
Reports that were received till late Friday evening on 11th February 2022 in Delhi suggests IAF operations saved 104 passengers after avalanches blocked major arterial roads in J & K and Ladakh.
As many as 76 passengers were airlifted from Jammu to Kargil and 28 from Kargil to Jammu.
The IAF operates C-17, C-130 and AN-32 aircraft regularly to airlift stranded passengers between Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in view of the closure of the 434-km Srinagar-Leh national highway owing to heavy winter snowfall in the month January.
News agencies are reporting that the next flight is scheduled on February 14 between Kargil and Srinagar.
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