Continuous rainfall since Friday night has triggered severe
mud-rock flows which disrupted traffic on a key highway in
southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, the local government
said.
Road work is going on at km 4044 of the No. 318 state highway
that links Tibet with neighboring Sichuan Province, said a spokesman of the
regional communications department.
He said it's still unclear when traffic will resume.
Mud-rock flows are frequently reported in eastern Tibet in the
rainy season with the latest mud-flow occurring only last
Tuesday.
The other end of the highway is also in for heavy rainstorms in
the coming three days, the meteorological bureau in neighboring
Sichuan Province warned on Saturday.
It said the rain will affect nine cities including the
provincial capital Chengdu.
(Xinhua News Agency July 15, 2007)
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