Train services remained suspended for the third day on Saturday in Kashmir in view of shutdown call issued by the separatist leaders on the 6th death anniversary of Afzal Guru who was secretly hanged in Delhi’s Tihar jail on this day in 2013.
On February 7 and 8 train service remained suspended due to heavy to very snowfall which had also frozen due to sub zero temperature.
“We have received an advisory on Friday night to suspend train service as a precautionary measure in the Kashmir valley”, a senior railway official was quoted as having said by news agency.