Heavy rains over the past 24 hours triggered landslides at multiple places in North Sikkim, cutting off the sensitive district on the China border from the rest of the state for over an hour on Thursday morning at a time there was heightened tension across all frontiers with China.
The major landslides had occurred on two roads that connect North Sikkim with the rest of the state on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. One was on NH310A at Ambithang, 3km from the district headquarters of Mangan, and the other at Namok Khola on the Dikchu-Mangan road. The two roads serve as links between the border and the rest of Sikkim.
Multiple stretches of both the roads were destroyed in the landslides. On NH310A, the major landslide was at Ambithang.
