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| Jammu-Srinagar Highway closed for 8th day | | | Jammu | March 19
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed to vehicular traffic for the eighth day, as another 700 passengers stranded due to landslides in Panthal area of Doda district were transshipped by authorities on Sunday.
Border Roads Organisation personnel were working to clear the blocked Highway that links the Kashmir valley to the rest of the country and 700 stranded passengers were shifted in 22 buses via Panthal, officials said here.
They said 6,000 passengers, stranded at Panthal due to landslides triggered by heavy rains since March 11, had so far been trans-shipped either to the Kashmir valley or Jammu.
The arterial road had remained closed for 10 days from February 21 to March 3 as a 300-metre stretch at Panthal was damaged due to landslides.
The Indian Air Force and Army launched a joint operation to airlift more than 10,000 stranded passengers from March 1 to 3.
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