Kaligandaki Corridor blocked due to landslides

 Gulmi, Sept 11: The Kaligandaki Corridor has been blocked due to landslides triggered by incessant rains since Wednesday night. 

The road has been completely blocked since last night after a landslide took place at Rakse in Kaligandaki Rural Municipality-2 under the Gulmi section of the Kaligandaki Corridor, said Ganga Bahadur Saru, Information Officer of the District Police Office, Gulmi.

A police team has been deployed from the Purtighat police post to the landslide site this morning to clear the road. However, continuous rainfall is hampering efforts to clear the landslide debris piled up on the road.

As a result, vehicles traveling to Palpa and Butwal via Parbat, Baglung and Ridi have remain stuck. Information Officer Saru said that local construction company Kalika Construction has kept machines ready to clear the road for traffic once the rain stops. (RSS)