Over 100 vehicles enter Nepal via Bhairahawa customs point
RUPANDEHI: The Belhia checkpoint of Bhairahawa, which was halted Tuesday following a day of normal operation, has reopened from today.
Vehicles carrying essential goods are entering Nepal via Bhairahawa customs checkpoint unobstructed with the decision of today's meeting of the security and customs officials of Nepal and India to allow entry of vehicles blocked in India to Nepal.
It is learnt that more than 100 goods-laden trucks and buses have come Nepal via Belhiya checkpoint of Bhairahawa.
According to Belhiya Area Police Office Chief Inspector Rabin Babu Regmi, vehicles including 52 trucks, six petroleum tankers, a bullet of LPG cooking gas, five tankers carrying carbon oxygen, 21 buses and more than 40 pick-up vans have entered Nepal as of 5:00 pm today.
Police said that the trucks that entered Nepal are laden with fruits, new motorbikes, wheat, rice, mustard, cement, onion, potato and tyres. The entry of vehicles carrying varieties of goods is still on.
The vehicles have entered Nepal via the checkpoint in absence of cadres of the agitating United Democratic Madhes Front (UDMF) at the no-man's land.
The meeting of the security and customs officials of both the countries held today to ensure smooth entry of vehicles to Nepal from India after the clash between agitating cadres and police at bordering Belhiya on Tuesday.
The stranded tankers and other trucks carrying goods are being escorted by Indian police with tight security to the bordering point.
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