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Traffic suspended on Jmu-Sgr highway

Traffic suspended on Jmu-Sgr highway
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SRINAGAR, Feb 27: Traffic on the 270-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway, remained suspended for the second consecutive day on Saturday, officials said.

They said that Srinagar-Jammu national highway was closed on Friday for weekly maintenance and repair work. However, traffic could not be restored Saturday morning due to landslides and shooting stones triggered by rain at Panthal and Margooz on the highway, the traffic police official said.

He said heavy rain during the night triggered shooting stones, landslides and mudslides.

The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has pressed into service sophisticated machines to put through the traffic, he said adding continued shooting stone are hampering the clearance operation. It was heavily raining between Banihal to Ramsu, triggering more mud and landslides besides shooting stones.

Once the road clearance operation will be completed, traffic will be resumed, he said.

He said today Light Motor Vehicles (LMVs) were to ply from Jammu to Srinagar. LMVs had to cross Nagrota Jammu between 0800 hrs to 1200 hrs and from Jakheni Udhampur between 0900 hrs to 1300 hrs.


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