Excelsior Correspondent
RAMBAN, Oct 6: The vehicular traffic on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained suspended for nearly four hours after a truck caught fire inside Jawahar Tunnel. However, all the three persons traveling in the truck had a narrow escape due to swift action on the part of State Police, Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Fire and Emergency Services Department.
Reports said that a truck bearing registration number JK03C-0195 caught fire as soon as it entered Jawahar Tunnel on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. The truck, which was carrying ply boards also suffered a blast when a gas cylinder inside the vehicle caught fire.
However, all the three persons traveling in the truck immediately jumped out and had a miraculous escape in the incident.
Witnessing smoke coming out of the south portal of the tunnel, all the agencies stationed at the tunnel including State Police, ITBP and CRPF immediately swung into action and got vehicular movement stopped from both the sides to prevent any untoward incident.
The Fire and Emergency Services personnel were immediately sounded and within shortest possible time fire tenders from Banihal and Qazigund reached Jawahar Tunnel and started dousing the fire. They also brought out safely the persons traveling in the truck from the smoke filled tunnel.
It took nearly four hours to douse the fire, remove the truck from the tunnel and restore vehicular movement. Even prior to this incident, there was complete chaos on the highway particularly in Ramban-Banihal sector because of breaking down of some vehicles on the road.
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