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Landslide blocks Highway in Bengal
Kalijhora
(West Bengal): A landslide caused by heavy rain
has disrupted traffic on the National Highway in Bengal.
The highway 31-A connects Sikkim with Kalimpong. The
Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has deployed bulldozers
and triggered explosives to clear rocks and boulders
in Kalijhora. . Prasanta Paul, a police officer, said
traffic movement is being streamlined. Monsoon flooding
has affected about 30 million people across India, in
the worst floods in decades.
- August
27, 2007
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