The Srinagar-Jammu highway has been closed yet again, this time due to slippery conditions because of the below freezing temperature.
Despite airlifting of about 5,000 stranded passengers, more than 3,500 people, including women and children, had to spend the night in their vehicles on the highway in below freezing temperature, after authorities announced reopening of the road on Sunday.
A traffic police official told
UNI in Srinagar that no vehicles were allowed from Jammu or Srinagar on Monday.
"It is totally slippery at Patnitop and other areas," he said, adding, it would be risky to allow traffic in these conditions.
He said as the day progressed, the frozen portions of the road had started melting.
"We are now allowing only one vehicle to pass the danger zones with very low speed," he said, adding that normal movement of vehicles would be allowed only when the entire frozen area defreezes. Only vehicles
