Kashmir highway reopens, stranded vehicles allowed to move

Srinagar, Dec 22 (UNI) Traffic on the 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway resumed this evening after remaining closed for 36-hours due to landslides and shooting of stones.

A traffic police official told UNI this evening that traffic reusmed after the landslides were cleared.

He said all the stranded vehicles, which left Jammu yesterday morning, are on way to Srinagar today. They will reach here late tonight, he said.

The official said in case the weather remain dry and there were no landslides and a threat of felling of stones, traffic from here to Jammu will be allowed tomorrow.

About five thousand people were stranded on the 300-km-long national highway which was closed yesterday due to landslides, resulting in price rise of essential commodities in the Kashmir valley.

The traffic official said one-way traffic resumed on the highway last evening after the landslides were cleared by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) responsible for the maintainance of the highway, the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country.

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