Landslide disrupts traffic on highway

The traffic remained suspended for hours on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway after a massive landslide occurred at Duggi-Pulli, Chanderkote Sunday morning.

Hundreds of passenger vehicles and trucks were stranded at various places on both sides of the highway, sources said.

A Traffic police official said that vehicular movement came to a halt due to the landslide at 10 am.

Manager of a contractor company carrying out repairs and maintenance of the road, said that they pressed into service men and machinery for clearing the landslide. “Four machines were used to clear the debris,” he said