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Korala road completely blocked, hundreds of containers stranded at customs yard

Mustang. The Jomsom-Korala road section has been completely obstructed due to incessant rain and snowfall since Saturday night. The road from Kavrebhir to Korala border of Myagdi and Mustang has been obstructed due to landslides at several places and heavy snowfall at Korala Pass area of Upper Mustang.

Hundreds of containers have been stranded at the customs yard due to the closure of the alternative Korala border point due to the complete obstruction of the Korala road due to rain. According to the District Police Office, Mustang, the road from Kavrebhir to Korala border point of Mustang has been completely blocked due to heavy rain and snowfall last night.

According to Santosh Basyal, Police Inspector at the District Police Office, the road has been obstructed due to landslides and falling of big boulders along the Kavrebhir section of the Myagdi-Mustang border. He said that the road has been obstructed due to landslides at some places in Ghansa area of Thasang Rural Municipality-4 of Mustang due to heavy rains. He said that the road has been completely obstructed due to landslides at Lower Ghasa and near Ghansa check post.TAG_OPEN_div_36

Similarly, the road was blocked due to flooding in the Faram River near the apple farm of the Temperate Horticulture Development Center at Marpha of Gharpajhong Rural Municipality-2, said Mohan Singh Lalchan, chairman of Gharpajhong Rural Municipality. He said that although the road was blocked due to the floods, there was no physical damage. Efforts have been made to open the road by taking the bulldozer of the rural municipality.TAG_OPEN_div_34

TAG_OPEN_div_32 According to the District Police Office, the Jomsom-Panda Khola road linking Korala checkpoint has been completely obstructed due to landslides triggered by rain last night. According to Police Inspector Basyal, the road from Kagbeni to Baragung-3 has also been obstructed.

Inspector Basyal said that the road track was completely damaged due to the flood in the Ghyakar River near the Mustang Gate connecting Korlana. He said that the road structure has been damaged due to landslides at half a dozen places from Kagbeni to Chaile.TAG_OPEN_div_30

Similarly, heavy rain lashed Mustang last night while heavy snowfall occurred in Lomanthang and Korlana areas. According to Inspector Prakash Dhital and in-charge of the Armed Police Force Border Outpost (BOP) at Lomanthang-4, Nhechung, heavy snowfall occurred at Korala checkpoint and customs area last night.

Local traders living in tents in Dasjajaja area of Korala Naka are facing problems due to snowfall. More than half a dozen tents erected by local traders have been damaged due to heavy snowfall, BOP in-charge Dhital said.TAG_OPEN_div_26

Nepal-China export and import trade has been completely affected due to heavy snowfall in the Korlana area since Friday night. According to BOP in-charge Dhital, more than 200 containers are stranded at the Mustang customs yard at Korlanaka. He said that empty containers that have passed the customs check and are going to take goods across the border have been stopped in place. Dhital said that more than one foot of snow has been received in the Korlana area.

Similarly, the power supply has been completely disrupted due to heavy rains. According to Sun Prasad Thakali, chief of the Nilgiri Consumer Cooperative, Jomsom Electricity Distribution Organization, the 240 KW hydropower house at Chokhopani, the border of Gharpajhong and Thasang rural municipalities, has been closed due to floods. He said that the electricity service in Mustang has been completely disrupted after the 33 KVA transmission line from Dana of Myagdi to Kowang was cut off due to the rain.

TAG_OPEN_div_20 The District Police Office, Mustang, has said that there is a problem in collecting the details of the damage caused by last night’s rain. The Myagdi section of the Beni-Jomsom road section, which connects the north-south, has also been obstructed at dozens of places due to heavy rainfall last night, said Supervisor of the Beni-Jomsom-Korala Road Project, Indra Singh Sherchan.

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