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Jammu, January 30
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed for traffic on Monday due to a landslide in Ramban district, leaving a few hundred vehicles stranded on the arterial road, officials said here.
The 270-kilometre-long highway was blocked by mudslides and shooting stones between Chanderkote and Banihal in the district, they said.
As a result of this, 300 vehicles are stranded at different points of the highway, the officials said, adding that workers and machinery had been deployed to clear the area.
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