Heavy snowfall hit Antalya city of Turkey

With beginning of winter season, Alacabel area with altitude of 1,825 meter in Antalya city of Turkey hit by heavy snowfall. Due to the heavy snowfall that started on Tuesday at 21:00 PM in local time and still continues in the city, Alacabel Highway Commission teams gone into action in Akseki-Seydişehir Highway that connecting the Antalya and Konya cities and started to ploughing snow that pile up on the road to prevent any accident happen. Highway Commission stated that there has been no mishap happened so far and the highway is been open to traffic. It’s been stated that snow depth reaches up to 10-15 centimeters from place to place and Highway Commission teams carrying on ploughing snow and salting the highway with great number of heavy equipment and snow plough vehicle to keep highway open to traffic.