Poonch: Authorities have diverted traffic at the Niali Manjakote area as a suspicious object has been found along Jammu-Rajouri-Poonch national highway on Tuesday.
An official said that security forces became suspicious of the presence of an unidentified object near the highway at Niali in the Manjakote area of Rajouri.
In response to this suspicion, the movement of vehicles along a seven-kilometer stretch of the highway has been redirected through an alternative link road, he said.
This diversion has been enacted to ensure the safety of commuters and to allow necessary investigations to take place, he added.
Technical teams, as well as bomb disposal squads from both the police and the army, have been swiftly deployed to the location, he further said.
(KNO)