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As of 04:00 on Tuesday morning, traffic police had rescued all the stranded drivers and vehicles after blizzard conditions in Qinghe County of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Monday.
The blizzard brought winds of over 75 kph and temperatures of minus 27 degree Celsius. It lowered visibility on expressways to less than five meters in some areas and blew snowdrifts around vehicles, trapping their wheels.
Traffic police officers were deployed to patrol roads and rescue over 70 people and 30 vehicles stranded by the bad weather. Police shoveled accumulated snow and pushed vehicles to get them moving while waiting for emergency vehicles to arrive.
"Currently the road remains in a bad condition, so emergency vehicles cannot get here quickly. We must manually assist. Traffic police are here shoveling snow little by little and rescuing the trapped vehicles one by one," said Ma Jiangang, the captain of the Qinghe Traffic Police Station.
Currently, the weather conditions are getting better, and traffic has resumed.