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Major highways closed, Amarnath yatra suspended
Srinagar, Jul 28: The Jammu-Srinagar, Srinagar-Leh highway were closed on Thursday after heavy rains triggered landslides at various places along the route.
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The inclement weather conditions also lead to the suspension of ongoing Amarnath Yatra.
Due to heavy rains on Wednesday night, massive landslides blocked the national highway in Ramban district of Jammu region, a senior police official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO).
The landslides forced the authorities to suspend the passage of devotees to annual Amarnath Yatra towards holy cave in south Kashmir from Jammu base camp.
“Work on clearance of roads is going on and the highway is expected to reopen soon,” the official said.
Meanwhile, the Srinagar-Leh highway was also closed for vehicular movement after fresh mudslides, triggered by rain occurred at Kullan Gund area in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district.
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The traffic is diverted through link road at Kullan.
“Men and machinery have been pressed into service to restore the highway”, official said.
However, the traffic on Mughal road was plying normally when the report was last filed.
National Institute of Technology, Hazratbal Srinagar, has instructed all students to vacate hostels with immediate effect.
The instructions, the authorities said, are being made in pursuance of the declaration of winter vacations.
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“Pursuant to the declaration of Winter Vacation for students w.e.f 30.11.2023 vide Order No. 60 of 2023 issued under endorsement number NITS/R/23/600 dated 30.11.2023 all hostel boarders (Boys and Girls) are instructed to vacate the hostels with immediate effect”, reads a circular.
The Vegetable market (Sabzi Mandi) in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district was Thursday gutted in a massive blaze, officials said.
An official said that the fire broke out in the wee hours today, left about 10 vegetable carts gutted in the incident, adding that vegetables worth huge amount got damaged in the incident.
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The official said that Fire and Emergency Services reached the spot and doused the flames with the help of Police.
The famous tourist destinations including Gulmarg and Doodhpathri experienced fresh snowfall on Thursday while rains lashed plains, bringing the mercury down.
Reports said that several areas of Kashmir received fresh snowfall, which include Gulmarg and Doodhpatri as well.
The weatherman has predicted light to moderate rainfall at most places and light snowfall over middle and higher reaches today.
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Meanwhile, the night temperature improved across Kashmir with Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir recording a minimum temperature of 5.3 degree Celsius.
The mercury in Qazigund settled at 5.0 degree Celsius while in Pahalgam it settled at 1.5 degree Celsius.
According to data, Konibal and Gulmarg recorded a low of minus 1.0 degree Celsius each.
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