Jammu-Srinagar Road Traffic Partially Restored

2k heavy vehicles stuck, to be allowed after clearing passenger vehicles; mishap victim's body found from Suran river

- HT Correspondent

JAMMU: With partial restoration of the 250-km long Jammu-Srinagar national highway (NH-44), traffic movement of passenger vehicles was allowed on Saturday afternoon, officials said. The highway, the only all-weather surface link that connects Kashmir with the rest of the country, was closed for traffic on Thursday following multiple landslides, mudslides and slush in Ramban district.

SSP (NH traffic) Rohit Baskotra said the men and machinery were at work to restore the affected stretches at Mehar, Dalwas, Peerah, T2 tunnel, Kishtwar Pathar and Mom Passing. "There are 10 big landslides where machines have been pressed into service to remove the debris," he said.