Srinagar
The department of Tourism assisted a group of 31 tourists from Kerala who were stuck at Jawahar Tunnel in the late evening hours on Saturday due to heavy traffic jam, the spokesperson said.
The tourists, led by RS Ranjith, were heading towards Kashmir for sightseeing.
“A Srinagar based local travel agent contacted secretary tourism for assistance to facilitate their movement towards Srinagar during intervening night of August 24 and 25, 2018,” reads the statement.
On the instructions of secretary tourism, the tourists were helped and then rescued to Srinagar.