Landslides Hits Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, Under-Construction Tunnel Damaged
NDTV
The traffic movement was stopped since rocks kept falling from a small hillock intermittently.
An under-construction tunnel was damaged due to landslide in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, which also affected traffic movement briefly. No casualties were reported in the incident. The landslide struck the 270-km highway near Cafeteria Morh around 1 am, blocking the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, locals officials were quoted as saying by news agency PTI. The tunnel is being constructed to bypass a busy stretch on the Jammu-Srinagar highway and is expected to be completed by next year.
Officials said the mouth of the under-construction tunnel was blocked by the debris.
As soon as the landslide was reported, the agency working on the four-lane highway project immediately pressed men and machines and managed to clear the road of the major debris.
The traffic movement was stopped since rocks kept falling from a small hillock intermittently.
