After a landslide in Baitadi at 1 o'clock in the night, the Jai Prithvi highway was blocked, and the vehicles going to and from Bajhang were stopped.
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Jai Prithvi Highway has been blocked due to landslides due to rain since yesterday. The highway was completely blocked after a landslide occurred near Ramilapur in Sigas rural municipality-9 of Baitadi.
Passenger Prithviraj Awasthi said that the highway was blocked after a landslide fell from above the road around 1 o'clock last night. "There was a small landslide before the bus I was on reached," he said, "Later the landslide increased and now the road is completely filled." Police Inspector Balaram Pandey, Spokesperson of District Police Office Baitadi, said that efforts are being made to open the blocked Jai Prithvi Highway.
Police Inspector Pandey said that the JCB has been sent to clear the landslide in coordination with the road division for the JCB. . Passengers have been stuck in the middle of the road since night when the road was blocked.
It is still raining in Baitadi. District Police Office Baitadi has not yet received any information about whether other roads in the district have been blocked apart from this highway.
