Jammu, July 23 -- The traffic on the strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was suspended on Wednesday following multiple landslides as relentless rainfall battered most part of Jammu region for the fourth day, officials said.

The search operation for seven missing persons continued in the flood and landslide-hit Poonch and Rajouri districts, while all the major pilgrimages, including Amarnath Yatra, Vaishno Devi yatra, Machail Mata yatra, remained suspended since Sunday.

A traffic department official said vehicular movement on the 250-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway was stopped from both sides at 9.30 am after heavy rainfall triggered landslides, mudslides and shooting stones at nearly a dozen places between Udhampur and Banihal ...