Rains and Heavy Snowfall expected in Tajikistan

Precipitation is expected in the valleys and heavy snowfall in the foothill and mountainous regions, reports the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CESCD). According to the CESCD, sleet, snow drifts, and a high degree of danger of avalanches and rockfalls remains in the sections of the roads Dushanbe Chanak, Dushanbe Vahdat Lakhsh, Dushanbe Rasht, Dushanbe Sangvor, Dushanbe Kulob, Shohin Darvoz, Vanj Khorug, Khorug-Ishkoshim-Murgob. The CESCD is once again warning the population to refrain from traveling through vulnerable areas and dangerous zones this week, as well as from collecting firewood, grazing, fishing and hunting. Earlier, due to precipitation, avalanches were recorded in the regions of GBAO, in the mountains of the Hissor Range, as well as on the Khorug-Ishkoshim, Dushanbe-Varzob-Ayni, Khorug-Murgob highways.