Landslide activity starts early in 2006

ARAVAN, 20 Feb 2006 (IRIN) — A landslide on Sunday ripped through a road linking the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh with the Aravan district, blocking traffic and destroying electricity and telephone services to the area, with no casualties reported.
“The traffic is very intense on this road but luckily no one was there when the landslide hit. I saw from a distance how a large landmass slid down and blocked the road,” Usar Khalikov, a local taxi driver who witnessed the landslide, said in Osh.





