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Landslides shut Jammu-Srinagar highway

August 11, 2003 11:16 IST

The 300-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed to vehicular traffic on Monday following a series of landslides triggered by incessant rains, police said.

The landslides occurred
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between Ramban and Banihal late on Sunday night.
 
Several hundred vehicles -- government-run and private -- are stranded at different places on the highway, police said.
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