Kashmir remains cut off from rest of country for day three.

The Kashmir valley remained cut off from the rest of the country after 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway remained closed for the third day today due to heavy snowfall and landslides.

Thousands of passengers besides truckers remained stranded on the highway, the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country.

However, traffic



police and local authorities have already shifted passenger vehicles to safer places from avalanche prone areas on the highway.

There was fresh snowfall early this morning at Qazigund, Jawhar tunnel, Banihal and Shaitan nallah besides rain, triggering fresh landslides between Ramband and Ramsu on the highway, officials sources told UNI.(UNI)