Gangtok, June 17: Due to incessant rainfall for the last three days, over 2500 tourists are stranded in Lachen and Lachung villages in Mangan district. They are being evacuated using wooden ladders to cross the landslides in Pegong which was ravaged by landslide on Thursday evening.

Also, the road connectivity in Sikkim’s Chungthang, Mangan district has been disrupted.

Out of the 2500 tourists, 60 are students of Namchi College who are stranded at Lachen and Lachung.

The evacuation process for the stranded tourist commenced at 11:00 am on Friday. Also, a tentative number of 19 buses has been pressed into relief action along with 70 small vehicles as of yet.

The last few days has seen the beginning of the monsoon in Sikkim and the young mountains have started sliding under the heavy rainfall.

On Thursday night, and the entire day of Friday, due to the heavy rainfall, the road connecting Singtam – Dikchu – Rangran – Mangan –Chungthang has seen a number of landslides and washing away of the road.

The damage started at around 6:15 pm on 15 June on either side of Rangarang in Sikkim, when the road was blocked from both sides of the town due to landslides.

The BRO Project Swastik also sent its brave Karamyogis along with their heavy earthmoving equipment immediately on sites to clear the road block.

These BRO Karamyogis worked in heavy rain in the danger of falling slide and boulders and opened the road for traffic by about 10:00 pm at night.

However, since the rain continued throughout the night, early morning again there was landslide close to Singtam and near Rangrang.

While the BRO Karamyogis were on war footing to clear these landslides and road blocks, a flash flood on road Mangan to Chungthang washed away a portion of the road and a small bridge along with it.

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