The conditions of fog and unusual smog continue to prevail in different cities of Punjab, triggering road accidents and causing health hazards.
Due to very low visibility in fog, authorities closed Motorway from Lahore to Sial Mor, Gojra to Faisalabad and Pindi Bhattian to Faisalabad for all kind of traffic.
At least three people were killed in fog-triggered road accidents in Sahiwal and Okara cities.
Cities and plains of Punjab continued to remain covered in thick and grey smog, heavily loaded with pollutants causing breathing ailments and eye infections.
Smog, which is not a natural phenomenon, is generated because of unregulated industrialisation and urbanisation. Smog causes a severe effect on people like itchy skin, blurred vision, headache and heavy breathing.
People also criticised the provincial government’s policies to cut down trees for development projects.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has formed a committee to examine the prevailing weather of dense smog in the cities and plains of Punjab.
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) says smoggy/foggy conditions are expected over plain areas of Lahore, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Multan Bahawalpur and Sukkur divisions during morning/evening.
PMD has forecast rain-thunderstorm with snow over the hills at scattered places of Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Mardan, Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan while at isolated places in Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Faisalabad divisions, Islamabad and FATA during the next 12 hours.
Today’s lowest minimum temperatures: Skardu -02°C, Hunza, Gilgit 01°C, Kalat, Astore 02°C.
