Itanagar: Continuous rainfall in the past four days has triggered landslides and a flood-like situation in Arunachal Pradesh, damaging roads, houses and inundating low-lying areas, officials said on Thursday.
Massive landslides have been reported in many parts of the state capital since Wednesday, a senior government official said.
Extra Assistant Commissioner (EAC) of Itanagar Neelam Teji said a mudslide at Dokum colony has damaged houses in Chimpu area. A road in Niti Vihar area has also been affected, she said.
Besides damaging a wide stretch of road from Dera Natug Government College gate to Upper Vivek Vihar here, the landslides have blocked a road from Hilltop colony to IRBn colony, Teji said.
PWD Assistant Engineer B Tadar said a large stretch of the Papu-Itanagar road via Jullang has been damaged.
A culvert near Nyishi Elite Society (NES) secretariat at Richi was completely washed away for which the road has been closed.
State BJP president B R Wahge who is also an MLA, Itanagar MLA Techi Kaso, PWD capital division-B Executive Engineer Tarh Gongkap along with locals visited the spot to take stock of the situation on Thursday morning.