10 February 2012, 10:58 (GMT+04:00)

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Emergency Ministry: Alternative road to Muganli-Ismailli Highway opened

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 12 / Trend K.Zarbaliyeva /

An alternative road to the Muganli-Ismailli Highway has been opened today, Ismailli City Executive Deputy and Regional Emergency Situations Commission head Rafael Ahmadov told Trend . Traffic was restored.

A landslide Feb. 10 hit the second kilometer of the Muganli-Ismailli Highway. The landslide destroyed an area of 500 meters with a width of 12 meters, leaving fractures with a depth of 1-3 meters. The calamity damaged neither car nor people.

The road links Baku to the northwestern regions of Azerbaijan.

This site prone to landslides, and they occur quite often in autumn-winter due to the precipitation

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