Travel chaos worsened

Travel chaos worsened

BEIJING - HEAVY snow has brought more travel chaos to north China, stranding thousands of truckers for two days on a Beijing highway and 1,400 rail passengers in Inner Mongolia, state media said on Tuesday. The snow that blanketed the region at the weekend has ended in Beijing but the national weather centre said the mercury dipped on Tuesday to -15.6 degrees Celsius - the coldest temperature in more than two decades.

The freezing weather was expected to continue until Thursday for the Chinese capital, nearby Tianjin and Inner Mongolia, with temperatures forecast to fall as low as minus 32 degrees Celsius, it said on its website. On the outskirts of Beijing, truck drivers were forced to sleep in their vehicles for two nights on a highway when snow made the road impassible, causing a 20-kilometre back-up, the Beijing News reported.

The newspaper, citing transit police, said the highway would only be cleared on Tuesday - after two chilly nights for the drivers, some of whom said they were afraid to sleep for fear of dying of exposure.

Others said they were prepared for the traffic mess. 'We brought food as we expected the jam,' said one trucker, who had two cases of instant noodle and one thermos of water on board. -- AFP

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