Heavy rain for six hours resulted in a landslide occurred at Km65, Jalan Ranau-Kota Kinabalu at the foot of the mountain early this morning causing hundreds of vehicles stranded.
Landslide that occurred at approximately 1 am covering a distance of 100 meters hillside path that is located not far from the path to Kinabalu National Park near Kundasang.
Executive Engineer Public Works Department Kota Kinabalu, Vincent Chua said there is no soul or accidents occur due to property damage incident.
According to him, cleaning work is done which is expected to finish tonight or tomorrow.
“This road still exists, but using only one path in interval-interlaced.
“However, the route is also little risk to road users because there are still dust and small stones down the hill due to rain for several days,” he said.
Reported, cleaning cause traffic congestion as far as three kilometers from both directions route.
“We have built a wall along the 80 meters to prevent dust and debris cover the miles of mountain roads,” he told Bernama when contacted.
Chua said a route from the Kota Kinabalu open for 30 minutes every hour to continue to work cleaning roads can be opened fully tonight or early tomorrow morning.
“Many people involved with cleaning and control traffic, including police and members of the Real,” he said.
According to him, seven heavy machinery used for cleaning and transporting soil and stone.
According to Chua, hilly area along the road that has led to a high water kondensi area is not stable and easily collapsed.
He said the landslide covered the road as high as 50 meters and 10 meters wide.
He said if the affected area worse, an alternative route not far from the area will be opened.
However, he said that alternative routes can be traveled only by four wheel drive vehicle as the route is not ready Maintained.