​Officials had been on alert for bad weather as the Defence Geoinformatics Research Establishment in Chandigarh issued an avalanche warning on Thursday evening for a period of 24 hours. The alert was for places located above 2,400 metres in Chamoli, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Pithoragarh and Bageshwar districts. The MeT office in Dehradun, on Friday morning, predicted isolated heavy rain and snowfall in locations situated at 3,500 metres and above.
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