Landslide Hits Trans Sulawesi In Onang Village, Police Enforce Road Opening

Photo via Antara

SULBAR - A landslide hit the Onang Village area, Tubo Sendana District, West Sulawesi (Sulbar), Sunday, October 24. In order for motorists to pass, the police enforce a system of opening and closing the road.

The head of the Tubo Sendana police station, AKP Tauhid, said that his party was forced to apply an open and close system because a landslide closed half of the Trans-Sulawesi Road in the village.

"The opening and closing system is implemented because the road is also temporarily cleared of landslides and only one vehicle can pass and cannot pass through the road that was hit by the landslide," he said in Majene, West Sulawesi, quoted from Antara, Monday, October 24.

He said the landslide resulted in long lines of vehicles on the Trans-Sulawesi Road in the Onang Village area, both from the south of the district and from the north of Mamuju City.

Tauhid apologized for the public's journey to be hampered. For those who want to access must be patient across the road.

According to him, the government's heavy equipment is also still working to clean up piles of landslides so that roads can be reopened.

"Police officers are also on standby at the landslide point because rocks from the top of the mountain are still falling onto the road," he said.

Yuti, a resident around the landslide location, said the disaster occurred after heavy rains flushed Onang Village at around 17.00 WITA. "The road has become a subscription to landslides," he said.