The Pasighat-Pangin and Pasighat-Mariyang roads remained cut off for the past few days due to massive landslides triggered by continuous rain since early this week, PWD (highways) sources said.
Restoration of the Pasighat-Mariyang road was on but continuous downpour was hampering work and it could take two to three days, the sources said.
Upper Siang district remained cut off from the rest of the state due to road disruption at several points following incessant rain.
West Kameng DIPRO said that the newly constructed Orang- Kalaktang-Shergaon-Rupa-Tenga road was breached and washed away at several locations due to continuous downpour since August 14 last.
Upper Subansiri DIPRO spoke to Tagom Yekar, who runs a tourist Lodge at Sikarijo.
Yekar said it all happened very suddenly at about 2 AM. At first they heard the sound of the gushing water and within 10 minutes the water rose about 10 feet high, flooding their house and washing away their belongings. They escaped as they could swiftly shift to a higher place.
Tajum Batak who stays nearby had a similar experience. He and his family too were sleeping when the water came gushing in and they could escape by drilling a hole in the bamboo walls of their home, the DIPRO said.
Sippi bore the brunt of the disaster with inundated houses, livestock and belongings swept away, rice fields flooded and bamboo groves uprooted.
At the Dhulaam Raji Memorial Public School at Sippi, the rains flooded the buildings up to 6 feet mark. The school had 72 boarders who were 5 to 12 years old. The students were evacuated on foot to a Batem village nearby, the DIPRO said. The wet and muddy classroom with scattered books, upturned furniture and logs and clothes strewn in the hostel dormitories are a silent reminder, she said.
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