CHINA-PLA: ROAD-BED COLLAPSE ON SICHUAN-TIBET HIGHWAY REPAIRED BY PAP'S MOBILE CORPS WITHIN 3 DAYS
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The PLA website Sina.com on September 9 reported that at 8:30 on August 24, affected by
continuous heavy rainfall, a 110-meter roadbed collapsed near Jiaoba Village, Songzong Town,
Bomi County, Sichuan-Tibet Line, rendering the section impassable. After the disaster occurred,
a detachment of the Second Mobile Corps of the Armed Police Force immediately dispatched
troops and large-scale emergency repair equipment to the scene to perform road repair and
emergency construction tasks. From August 29th to 31st, the armed police officers and soldiers
carried out the widening of the inner mountain rock, the optimization of the sidewalk descending
slope, and the dangerous rock removal work of the high slope. As of September 2, large trucks
could pass.
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