Heavy rain triggers landslide, damages road stretch in Darjeeling hills

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Heavy rain triggers landslide, damages road stretch in Darjeeling hills
Kolkata, June 29 (IANS) A spell of heavy rain triggered a landslide in West Bengal's Darjeeling district, damaging a stretch of the main road linking Rimbik and Lodhama areas in the hills and affecting traffic flow, police sources said on Monday.
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The sources said no casualty was reported in the incident on Sunday afternoon.

The sources said that the landslide heavily damaged the newly-constructed road stretch redeveloped recently at a cost of Rs 20 crore. The district administration had begun repair work on the link road from Monday morning.

--IANS

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