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Tibet highway reopens after landslide

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-06-14 13:21

LHASA - A pivotal highway in southwest Tibet autonomous region reopened Monday night, approximately 12 hours after a rain-triggered landslide disrupted traffic.

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Traffic resumed on the highway linking Tibet with neighboring Sichuan province at 8:20 pm, after rescuers cleared all debris of the landslide that covered more than 30 meters of the road, said a spokesman with the armed police in Tibet's Nyingchi county.

The landslide occurred in the mountainous county at around 8 am Monday, trapping more than 100 people in at least 60 vehicles, he said.

Twenty-five officers were mobilized to clear almost 900 cubic meters of debris with an excavator and two loading machines.