Road clearing was intensified on Sunday morning after the weather improved to reopen the highway.
The 270-km-long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was reopened on Sunday after being closed for over 30 hours due to heavy rains triggered landslides and stone-pelting. After clearing the debris from the road, more than 500 vehicles, mostly trucks, stranded for Jammu to Srinagar have been cleared. Dozens of stranded trucks were also allowed to move from Kashmir to Jammu,” senior superintendent of police (SSP), traffic, Shabbir Ahmed Malik told PTI.
The highway was closed early Saturday after a massive landslide blocked the only road connecting Kashmir to the rest of the country, near Cafeteria Turn, besides the main road between Marug and Ramsu in Ramban district. And there was shooting of stones from the hills.
Malik said road clearance operations were intensified on Sunday morning after the weather improved to reopen the highway, which was mainly blocked at Cafeteria Mor, Maroog and Peera.
He said that the road was cleared for one-way traffic in the afternoon and accordingly the stranded vehicles were allowed to move from Jammu to Srinagar and then from Kashmir to Jammu.
“No fresh traffic was allowed from Jammu or Srinagar,” the official said, adding that light motor vehicles would be allowed from both sides on the highway, subject to good weather and better road conditions.
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