Nagaland: Landslides damage house, truck falls off NH-202

Dimapur: Landslides caused by incessant rains in the past few days in Nagaland damaged a house in Chessore town while a Noklak-bound truck fell below the road near K Wungthu village in Shamator district, according to an official release on Friday (July 05).

The house belonging to Obed Yimkhiung, a resident of Keku colony at Chessore town in Nagaland, was damaged by landslides.

A truck stuck on national highway (NH)-202 near K Wongthu village fell 300 meters below the road because of loose soil.

No casualty was reported in the incidents.

The roads to Chessore area remained cut off from the rest of Nagaland due to the monsoon fury even as the Nagaland PWD is trying to clear the roads from Chessore town towards Shamator via Huker, Kephor and Shiponger villages.

Meanwhile, Mokokchung DC Thsuvisie Phoji has issued a travel advisory in view of the massive landslides and rock falls that occurred along the ongoing widening of the existing single lane to an intermediate land road between Mokokchung to Chare via Dikhu which poses a threat to the safety of the commuters and onsite workers.

Phoji said there will be complete closers of vehicular movements along the said stretch of the highway from Friday until the end of the monsoon season or further notice.

He advised the commuters from Mokokchung to Chare and vice versa to take the alternative route - Sewak Gate-Moalenden-Meyilong-Chare road.