SHAS­TRI BOODAN

The Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit of the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TRC) is col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Min­istry of Works to clear land­slides and mud­slides in Bras­so.

CT­TRC Chair­man Hen­ry Awong told Guardian Me­dia on Sat­ur­day morn­ing that the heavy rains saw land­slides tak­ing place along the Ca­paro Val­ley Bras­so Road in the area of Mas­sa Junc­tion, Tele­maque Road, which leads to Bras­so Ve­na­do and Los At­ta­jos, as well as parts of Gran Cou­va.

Awong said the biggest chal­lenge is to get the equip­ment in­to the af­fect­ed ar­eas to re­move the tons of de­bris.

He ad­vised res­i­dents against ven­tur­ing out­doors in­to the af­fect­ed ar­eas.

The CT­TRC chair­man said the au­thor­i­ties were work­ing as fast as pos­si­ble to clear land­slide de­bris, stress­ing that af­fect­ed ar­eas ur­gent­ly need re­lief.

"Mamoral is drown­ing right now,” he said.  “I am mak­ing an ap­peal to the ODPM and the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment.”

Hen­ry Awong re­port­ed: “Bridges cov­ered; the roads are im­pass­able, and we have hun­dreds af­fect­ed in Mamoral. In Gran Cou­va, there mud­slides and land­slides and that area is a dis­as­ter.”

“We are beg­ging for help from the Min­is­ter, Far­ris Al Rawi,” he added.