KATHMANDU, June 30: The landslide at Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality-5 along the Narayanghat-Mugling road section taking place from Thursday afternoon is still continuing, making it difficult to clear the debris.
Stones are falling off the road along with the dry landslide and clearance of the debris would start only from Friday morning, police said.
This disrupted vehicular movement the whole night yesterday.
Vehicular movement along Jaya Prithvi Highway resumes
Superintendent of Police (SP) of Chitwan Rameshwor Karki said that clearance of the debris would start only after Friday morning.
Earlier on Thursday, head constable of Nepal Police Jayaram Shah was injured after being hit by stones while clearing the landslide. According to the District Police Office, Chitwan, Shah is undergoing treatment at Bharatpur Hospital.
Hundreds of vehicles to and from Chitwan remain stranded halfway after the road disruption from 13:20 Thursday afternoon.
