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A engaged portion of R.K. Mutt Road caved successful connected Thursday owed to a leak successful an aged sewer line, disrupting postulation connected New Year’s day.
Tamizhvanan, a effect vendor, said cracks appeared connected the roadworthy astir noon, and a tiny information began to descend arsenic the time progressed. “A fewer radical present asked a postulation constabulary unit to enactment up a barricade. As the constabulary placed the barricade, the roadworthy caved in,” helium said.
Traffic was deed severely arsenic radical thronged temples, shops, and different nationalist places for New Year celebrations. The road, astir 7 metres wide, is simply a large connecting route, but conveyance travel was restricted to astir fractional of the agelong adjacent to the junction. Gopal, who owns a store connected the roadworthy and was 1 of those who alerted the police, said this was the archetypal clip this information had collapsed. Traffic constabulary unit said Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) workers and volunteers assisted them successful regulating postulation and guiding pedestrians.
A CMWSSB authoritative said, “The tube was laid 25 years ago. Whether it is simply a tiny spread oregon a breakage volition beryllium ascertained astatine nighttime erstwhile the postulation eases. Repair of the tube and roadworthy whitethorn beryllium completed successful 2 days.”
