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Road linking Xieng Khuang cut by landslides
Access to Xieng Khuang province is being severely hampered with a seven kilometre section of National Road No. 7 being covered with landslides. The blockage is also causing traffic to queue up on the roadside of Road No.13 North at the Phoukhoun junction area in the northern part of the country.
A queue of vehicles almost one kilometre long were stopped along the main northern route on Wednesday evening as a result of heavy rains causing large amounts of red soil and trees to slide down mountainsides along National Road No. 7. “No vehicle can get past the landslides as it has completely blocked the road, and we still cannot say at what time transportation will be returned to normal,” an official from the Public Works and Transport in Phoukhoun district, Mr Lathsamy Vongxay told Vientiane Times on Thursday morning. About 42km from Phoukhoun junction on the border between Luang Prabang and Xieng Khuang provinces a seven kilometre section of Road No. 7 has been affected.
Local residents await floodwaters to recede in Xieng Khuang province.
From Kasy district in Vientiane province at Km 260 to Phoukhoun junction in Luang Prabang province, the road is not badly affected by landslides, but there are scores of locations damaged by the fallen soil and mud after the junction at Phoukhoun to Satae stream about 70km from the town of Luang Prabang. However, provincial authorities have confirmed that the Vientiane to Luang Prabang road was open for transport on Thursday at 8am after this route was paralysed on Wednesday at 5pm.
Road users should take extreme care on the muddy and slippery roads and be vigilant for landslides. Roads in many parts of northern Laos are dangerous because they are narrow and in mountainous areas. Unfortunately, the road linking Vientiane to Xieng Khuang province via Borikhamxay between the Thathom and Thasy areas in Borikhan district is not passable due to landslides that occurred on this section of road on Thursday morning.
Access to Xieng Khuang province is being severely hampered with a seven kilometre section of National Road No. 7 being covered with landslides. The blockage is also causing traffic to queue up on the roadside of Road No.13 North at the Phoukhoun junction area in the northern part of the country.
A queue of vehicles almost one kilometre long were stopped along the main northern route on Wednesday evening as a result of heavy rains causing large amounts of red soil and trees to slide down mountainsides along National Road No. 7. “No vehicle can get past the landslides as it has completely blocked the road, and we still cannot say at what time transportation will be returned to normal,” an official from the Public Works and Transport in Phoukhoun district, Mr Lathsamy Vongxay told Vientiane Times on Thursday morning. About 42km from Phoukhoun junction on the border between Luang Prabang and Xieng Khuang provinces a seven kilometre section of Road No. 7 has been affected.
Local residents await floodwaters to recede in Xieng Khuang province.
From Kasy district in Vientiane province at Km 260 to Phoukhoun junction in Luang Prabang province, the road is not badly affected by landslides, but there are scores of locations damaged by the fallen soil and mud after the junction at Phoukhoun to Satae stream about 70km from the town of Luang Prabang. However, provincial authorities have confirmed that the Vientiane to Luang Prabang road was open for transport on Thursday at 8am after this route was paralysed on Wednesday at 5pm.
Road users should take extreme care on the muddy and slippery roads and be vigilant for landslides. Roads in many parts of northern Laos are dangerous because they are narrow and in mountainous areas. Unfortunately, the road linking Vientiane to Xieng Khuang province via Borikhamxay between the Thathom and Thasy areas in Borikhan district is not passable due to landslides that occurred on this section of road on Thursday morning.
