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Landslide obstructs Mal Dhunga-Beni road section
Vehicular movement along the Mal Dhunga-Beni road section in Parbat has been obstructed due to landslide on Sunday.
bookmarkVehicular movement along the Mal Dhunga-Beni road section in Parbat has been obstructed due to landslide on Sunday.
Ekantipur Report
Published at : July 19, 2015
Updated at : July 19, 2015 14:08
Parbat
The landslide took place at Pang cliff in Majhi settlement near the banks of Kali Gandaki River at 8 am this morning.
The landslide debris has also caused damage to the nearby Shramik Primary School. The roof and compound wall of the school has been damaged by a rock that fell off from the cliff.
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A diversion has been created using a dozer to start the operation of vehicles after a team of district police failed to remove the debris from the road. “We are unable to open the road as there is no way we can remove the huge boulders from the road,” said Parbat Police Chief DSP Mahendra Kumar Shrestha, “There is a high risk of danger if we open up the road at the same place.”
Locals said that the cliff side developed cracks after the great quake of April 25 and eventually gave up today due to the incessant rainfall since few days. One local, Ganesh Majhi, said that around 108 families of squatters are in the high risk of landslide.
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