SRINAGAR : The national highway, connecting the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country was closed again this morning due to landslides, triggered by heavy rain, official sources said.
They said heavy rain triggered landslides and shooting stones at Jawahar tunnel, Penthal and Ramban area on the 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway forcing authorities to suspend traffic.
However, some vehicles, majority of them empty trucks, stranded on this side of the Jawahar tunnel, were allowed to move towards Jammu early this morning. But later all traffic was stopped following landslides, they said adding the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for maintenance of the highway has pressed into service sophisticated machines and men to clear the landslides.
They said traffic on the highway will be resumed only after receiving green signal from the BRO and traffic police personnel deployed at different places on the highway. (AGENCIES)
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