Bad weather: Authorities announce closure of Bandipora-Gurez Road
Bandipora, Aug 27: The 84-km Bandipora-Gurez road was closed for all sorts of traffic movement on Thursday owing to adverse weather conditions.
An official said that “due to the heavy rainfall the Bandipora-Gurez and Dawar-Tulail road has become slippery and to avoid any untoward incident, all sorts of vehicular movement on the road has been suspended.”
Deputy Commissioner Bandipora Owais Ahmad said that keeping in view of heavy rainfall and to avoid any accident, all types of vehicles/public movement are restricted on Dawar-Bandipora road and Dawar-Tulail road.
Earlier, yesterday a Water Supply Scheme got washed away due to flash floods triggered by incessant rainfall in Gurez area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Besides, theBarnai-Tulai road in Gurez area was also blocked due to the landslide, affecting the vehicular movement in the area. (KNO)
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