“The traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar and Srinagar-Leh National Highways along with Mughal and Sinthan top roads was suspended on Tuesday (October 7, 2025) following multiple landslips triggered by heavy rain and snow accumulation in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir,” officials said.
The high-altitude areas of Jammu and Kashmir experienced fresh snowfall, while the plains were lashed by heavy overnight rain, resulting in a considerable drop in the mercury.
A traffic department official said the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was closed for vehicular movement on Tuesday morning (October 7, 2025) owing to landslips and shooting of stones at multiple locations between Udhampur and Banihal.
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“Road clearance agencies have been mobilised to make the road trafficable as soon as possible,” the official said, adding that they are hopeful of clearing the traffic, which has been stopped at Nagrota in Jammu, by late afternoon.
