536 cargo containers leave Mustang

By Our Correspondent

Muktinath (Mustang), Oct. 13: More than 500 cargo containers and trucks stranded in Mustang due to floods, landslides and riverbank erosion triggered by continuous rainfall have left the district after the resumption of traffic on the Beni-Jomsom-Korala section of the Kaligandaki Corridor.

A total of 536 containers and trucks, which had been stranded in Mustang for nearly two weeks following the disruption of the road, had departed from Ghasa towards their destinations by Sunday evening.

According to the District Police Office, Mustang, 69 containers and trucks passed through the Lete checkpoint from October 1 to 6; 44 on October 7; 70 on October 8; 85 on October 9; 88 on October 10 and a record 180 on October 11.Santosh Basyal, information officer at the District Police Office, said that 16 electric vehicles (EVs) had also left through the Lete and Ghasa checkpoints during the same period.