Friday, November 15News and updates from Kashmir

1370 Kashmir-Bound Trucks, Private Vehicles Stuck on Jammu-Srinagar Highway

Sheikh Nadeem

At least, 1370 trucks bound to Kashmir are stranded in Jammu, Samba and Udhampur districts from the past three days due to closure of Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in view of the heavy rainfalls.

Sources told The Kashmiriyat that private vehicles in large numbers on way to Kashmir from jammu have been stopped as the rainfall has trigerred heavy landslides on the Srinagar- Jammu highway.

Officials said that 800 trucks have been stranded after the Jammu-Srinagar highway closed due to inclement weather conditions and landslides and the Rest of the trucks have been blocked in the other places on the highway.

Meanwhile the Jammu Kashmir region has been under a spell of rainfall for more than 24 hours now, which has triggered landslides at several places.

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