23 cars rescued from snow banks, 35 buses and 104 trucks pile up at Aisha bibi checkpoint
09:34, 30 November 2012
ASTANA. November 30. KAZINFORM 23 cars getting trapped into snow banks along the Almaty-Tashkent highway in Zhambyl region were rescued on November 28.
On Thursday evening about 100 trucks and 200 people, 4 buses without passengers piled up near Akbiik village along the Almaty-Tashkent highway. The truck drivers were given rooms at hotels. No victims were reported, the Kazakh Emergencies Ministry said.
35 passenger buses and 104 trucks are stuck so far in a traffic congestion at the Aisha bibi road police department checkpoint.