Rethymno: Great landslide in the gorge of Kotsifos, closed the road

Big piece of rock fell on the road passing through Kotsifos in As Vice Mayor St. Basil told Flashnews.gr Evangelos Kapetanakis found in the gorge, “the rocks have covered and destroyed the road about 15 meters long and even pieces of the rock have reached the river (Kotsifou stream). The disaster is very great and literally has “sit” the pavement!”. It is characteristic and, as shown by the photographs, the pieces have covered the road and of course they have destroyed it, while the volume of the rocks also broke the iron barriers that exist at the site and were even recently placed. Immediately they reached the point, the Civil Protection of the vice-region of Rethymnon, the municipality of Agios Vasilios and, of course, the police who have already closed down the “enter and exit” road of the point of landslide in an important radius, so that no one can approach a driver. The road will remain closed until further notice, and tomorrow morning there will be further mobilisation at the site and autopsy to immediately launch the next moves (cleaning, road repair, better security measures possibly, etc.).