The Karnali highway has been blocked due to landslides due to rain since Tuesday night. The road was blocked due to a landslide at the Gagane river and S turn in the Kalikot section of the highway.

Poshan Thapa, information officer of the district police office, said that preparations are being made to send a dozer to clear the landslide on the highway. Landslides have occurred at two places on the Karnali highway. He said, 'The road is blocked due to the ever-flowing Gagane river and another landslide at the S-turn.' After he sent the JCV stationed at Hulma in Kalikot and removed the landslide, the road is likely to be operational by afternoon  informed that. 

Since the rains started, landslides have occurred only 9 times in Gagane Kholo and S mode, the police said. The road division office installed a gabion wall for landslide prevention only last year at a cost of more than 2 million rupees, but it did not last because of continuous landslides from above. 

The rain has caused stones to fall at places in Kalikot Jumla section of Karnali highway, but the transport businessmen have cleared the road themselves, Krishna Khatri, a businessman who is going to Surkhet from Jumla, said. At 10/12 places, Sabel himself removed the stone and reached Kalikot,' he told