Devastating News From Muree

Article # 83
Dated: 10th January 2022

One of our colleagues shared devastating news of some tourists' deaths in the snowstorm in Murree. He even shared the pics and videos of the incident and dead bodies in our WhatsApp group which I couldn't even dare to watch. Because I find such kinds of heart-wrenching videos difficult to process and it makes me sad for days. And I find the sharing of such videos online gruesome and barbaric but people will do anything for likes and shares on toxic social media platforms. They won't have shared it if it happened to their families.

This tragic event occurs when more than 100K cars entered Muree where the parking capacity is only 4K. And our Inhumane Minister even tried to take the credit for it by tweeting about it stating that people are happy and the income has been increased. I mean it was time to take some action about the administration of the city and close the road and stop more tourists from entering the city until they clear out the already massive influx of cars. But they didn't give it a thought and let tourists even suffer more.

The other reason behind these deaths is the inhumane and greedy nature of all the hotel's mafia. They started to take 50K PKR per night rent which is worth $282. The normal rent in Murree is not more than 10K which is almost $60. So they have increased the rate almost 5 times. Because they saw the influx of tourists and they used it as an opportunity and take the wrong advantage of them.

Roads were blocked because our authorities didn't take any action and they took the whole matter carelessly. Their carelessness resulted in the deaths of 22 tourists who were stranded in their cars under a heavy snowstorm for a whole night. Most of us thought maybe they were freezer to death but the reason was they opened the heaters of their cars with their side mirrors completely shut down. The snow covered the silencer which resulted in the car getting filled with Carbon monoxide and the side mirrors were closed which made the lack of oxygen too. And they passed away in their sleep.

And the authorities wakes up when they saw their videos circulating on social media and then they started taking action by clearing the roads and obstructions. Some losers are putting all the blame on those tourists by stating they shouldn't have left Murree after seeing the weather reports. But these fools dont realize that stop putting the blames on common people and start questioning the authorities and it's high time they should be answerable for their carelessness.