Rangamati-Ctg road opens to heavy plying

Just over two months after a series of deadly landslides, Rangamati has established its Chittagong road connectivity for plying of heavy transport.

A bailey bridge with 10 tonne capacity was opened this morning and the plying of trucks and other heavy vehicles began, our local correspondent reports.

Amdad Hossain, an executive engineer of Roads and Highways Division, said: “The bailey bridge has been opened 68 days after the landslides devoured the road in Satchhari”.

Landslides had severely damaged the Rangamati-Chittagong link road back in June 12. A few weeks after, Bangladesh Army had built a makeshift road for the passage of light vehicles.

The damage of the road had taken place alongside the death of five Bangladesh Army men, including two officers, on that day. The death toll in Rangamati topped 120.