Jammu-Srinagar highway closed for traffic due to landslides

The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed for vehicular traffic due to landslides triggered by heavy rain at several places in Ramban district on Friday, officials said. A few hundred vehicles, including those carrying a batch of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims, are stranded at different points of the highway, they said.

The 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with rest of the country, was blocked by shooting stones, landslides and mudslides at six places in Ramban district, they said.