Kathmandu, July 21 -- Authorities have resumed one-way traffic for light vehicles along the Syaphrubesi-Rasuwagadhi road, 13 days after flooding from the Bhotekoshi River severely damaged the route connecting to the Nepal-China border.

Around one kilometre of the road was washed away, cutting off a 16-kilometre stretch from Syaphrubesi to Rasuwagadhi. The disruption severed road access between Timure and Rasuwagadhi, halting even emergency transport and food supply deliveries.

Shubharaj Neupane, chief of the Road Supervision and Monitoring Office, said traffic for light vehicles resumed on Sunday. "We initially aimed to open the road by Friday, but complications at Lingling landslide area forced us to work 50 metres down a cliff, close ...