J-K highway closed for vehicular traffic for second day

The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, the only all-weather road connecting Kashmir with rest of the country, remained closed for vehicular traffic for the second consecutive day today due to snow and slippery conditions.
As a result of snowfall and slippery road conditions, over 900 vehicles are stranded on the 300-km-long highway at various places in Nagrota, Sidhra, Jakhani, Udhampur, Kud, Chenani, Ramban, Banihal and Jawahar tunnel areas, police said.
"Due to the situation and prediction of more snowfall, we did not allow fresh movement of vehicles from both the capital cities of Jammu and Kashmir", officials said.
The J-K highway was closed yesterday for the vehicular traffic due to fresh snowfall and slippery road conditions in Jawahar tunnel and Patnitop areas.

The men and machines of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) are working to clear the highway, but continuous snowfall is hampering the operation, they said.
Roads between Jammu and various places, including Doda, Kishtwar districts, besides inter-districts road and also Mughal road connecting Shopian district of south Kashmir with Poonch district of Jammu division, also remained closed.