{"id":169159,"date":"2021-08-14T01:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T19:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=169159"},"modified":"2021-08-14T01:16:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T19:46:27","slug":"portion-of-nh-13-near-pasighat-swept-away-landslide-blocks-likabali-basar-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/14\/portion-of-nh-13-near-pasighat-swept-away-landslide-blocks-likabali-basar-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Portion of NH 13 near Pasighat swept away, landslide blocks Likabali-Basar road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 13 Aug:<\/strong> A portion of National Highway (NH) 13, connecting Pasighat (East Siang), Pangin (Siang) and Aalo (West Siang), was reportedly swept away by a landslide triggered by heavy rain on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources in Pasighat informed that nearly 70-80 metres of the highway were swept away near Sirki waterfall, 4 kms from Pasighat, towards Pangin and Aalo. No casualty has been reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Official sources informed that it may take nearly a week to restore the breached portion of the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">East Siang DC Dr Kinny Singh has issued a travel advisory, cautioning the public against taking the Pasighat-Pangin route for seven days, especially at night. The DC has directed the highway department executive engineer and the NHIDL general manager to deploy men and machinery 24\/7 to fully restore the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, it is learnt that the Likabali-Basar stretch of NH 13 has been blocked by a heavy landside, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded on either side of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The road between Tuting and Yingkiong in Upper Siang district has also been reportedly blocked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Multiple landslides caused by heavy downpour may affect officials travelling to attend the 75th Independence Day celebration on 15 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 13 Aug: A portion of National Highway (NH) 13, connecting Pasighat (East Siang), Pangin (Siang) and Aalo (West Siang), was reportedly swept away by a landslide triggered by heavy rain on Friday. Sources in Pasighat informed that nearly 70-80 metres of the highway were swept away near Sirki waterfall, 4 kms from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}