Landslide falls upon car stuck at Narayangadh-Muglin road

CHITWAN: A landslide buried a car which was stuck at traffic chaos along the obstructed Narayangadh-Muglin road section at Panch Kilo of Chandibhanjyang VDC of Chitwan on Monday evening.

It, however, did not cause any casualty as the people on board the car had already moved to a safer location.

Engineer Shiva Khanal at the Narayangadh-Muglin Road Project said that the car (Ba 14 Cha 8290) was completely damaged in the incident. The incident took place at around 8:30 pm.

"We were in a traffic jam. We left our car and fled to a safer place after we saw stones falling from the hill above. After sometime the landslide buried our car," car owner Krishna Thapa of Galfutar, Kathmandu, said.

Police said that two persons including Thapa were travelling on the car.

Thapa said that other vehicles also sustained minor damage as landslide fell upon the road from the adjoining hill.