National highway opens, closed again; 750 vehicles allowed to pass

The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was opened for a few hours this morning, allowing the movement of stranded vehicles, a traffic police officer said. More than 750 vehicles left Jammu for the Kashmir valley till 11 am today, the officer said. “No vehicle was allowed to move to Srinagar after that,” he added. The highway was closed in view of apprehensions of trouble after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Ahmed Bhat’s killing in an encounter with security forces in the Tral area of Pulwama on Saturday. The fears were compounded by Kashmir…

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