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Bharmour cut off after highway bridge collapses due to landslide

By, Dharamshala
Feb 06, 2023 12:18 AM IST

Bharmour town and dozens of villages in the tribal region were cut off from the rest of the district after a bridge on the Chamba-Bharmour Highway (NH-154A) collapsed due to a massive landslide late on Saturday.

Bharmour town and dozens of villages in the tribal region were cut off from the rest of the district after a bridge on the Chamba-Bharmour Highway (NH-154A) collapsed due to a massive landslide late on Saturday.

A bridge on the Chamba-Bharmour National Highway collapsed in Chamba on Sunday. (PTI)
A bridge on the Chamba-Bharmour National Highway collapsed in Chamba on Sunday. (PTI)

No casualties have been reported in the incident which took place at Bharmour sub-division’s Luna village.

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Director of the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) Sudesh Kumar Mokhta said that the bridge collapsed after a big rock fell on it. “The link between Chamba to Bharmour has been totally snapped and efforts were being made to build an alternative road.

This is the second such incident within three days in the Bharmour region. Last Friday, one person was killed after a valley bridge collapsed at Choli near Holi town. The bridge had collapsed when overloaded dumper trucks were passing through it.

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