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| Highway closed, reopened to traffic | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 01:
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, which was closed to vehicular traffic due to landslides and shooting stones triggered by heavy rains Monday morning , was reopened in the
evening.
Incessant rains that lashed the highway at night and in the morning triggered landslides and shooting stones at several places ahead of Ramban, official sources said.The Panthal road stretch, falling almost midway on the 300-km highway, is the most vulnerable because rains often trigger
landslides and shooting stones from the mountainside. The weather office said widespread rains would occur in Jammu and Kashmir because of a western disturbance.
Authorities have also issued avalanche warnings for people living in the higher reaches. People in higher reaches had been asked to move with extreme caution, especially in avalanche-prone areas, the sources added.
Sources said following improvement in weather conditions, the road was cleared of landslides in the evening when all the stranded passenger vehicles were allowed to move towards their destinations.
Weather permitting, the stranded trucks and load carriers would also be allowed to move to their respective destinations tomorrow morning, the sources added.
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