Landslide

A massive landslide tore through a ravine in northwest Colombia May 18 before dawn, killing at least 61 people and injuring 37, authorities said.

Remediation of landslides to cost EUR 11 billion

BELGRADE -- About 30 percent of Serbia's territory - some 40,000 locations - is affected by some type of landslides or rockfalls, a symposium on landslides has heard.

Remediation of all those sites would cost around EUR 11 billion, it was said during the gathering in Belgrade on Thursday, Tanjug reported.

The road between Asenovgrad and Smolyan still remains closed both ways due to the new landslide in the region. It is expected that the road will be unblocked by the end of the day.

In order for the rocks after the landslide can be cleared faster, excavators will be working on both sides of the road.

As Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova was going over a regular inspection of the works of clearing away the landslide remnants on the road between Asenovgrad and Smolyan, she almost got hit by faling rocks on Thursday evening, NOVA news reported.

Shortly after 7 pm, Pavlova decided to check the pace of work on site, but barely managed to escape a further incident herself.

Deputy Minister of Regional Development Nikolay Nankov announced Thursday that the dangerous landslides in Bulgaria are currently 1159.

Meanwhile, new landslides have also appeared since the beginning of the year, stated Nankov in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio.

A landslide consisting of approximately 80 cubic meters of earth mass has been activated over the past night at the verge of the Smolyan neighborhood Ustovo.

The massive rocks on the road between Smolyan and Pamporovo have been blocking road traffic since Sunday.  

CACAK - A total of 36,000 landslide sites have been registered in Serbia, Minister for Emergency Situations Velimir Ilic has said in Cacak, expressing concern that new ones may appear once the snow melts.

Serbia has 36,000 landslide sites - minister

CACAK -- A total of 36,000 landslide sites have been registered in Serbia, Minister for Emergency Situations Velimir Ilic said on Thursday in Cacak, central Serbia.

He added he was worried that "new ones may appear once the snow melts."

BELGRADE - Adding to a host of problems caused by heavy snow that, which have made it impossible to reach a lot of homes in various parts of central, western and southern Serbia, landslides have began moving in the areas of the towns of Ljig, Lebane, Kursumlija and Trstenik.

After a landslide in the area of ??the Kresna Gorge, a stretch of highway E-79 between Sandanski and Kulata was closed Thursday.

No injuries have been reported at this time and no cars have passed in the critical section of the motorway in the Blagoevgrad municipality.

Torrential rains have managed to break the landslide preventative net.