The Zambian Road Development Agency (RDA) has dispatched a team of engineers to a section of the Luangwa Feira road (D 145) to assess the extent of damage following heavy rains.
RDA director of communications and corporate Affairs, Loyce Saili, said that a section of the road – situated approximately four kilometres from the junction of Great East Road at Luangwa -- had been damaged by what the agency suspected to be underground water from the nearby mountains that had seeped into the foot of the mountain and into the road surface.
“We have instructed the contractor, China Geo, to go to the site to remedy the situation,” she said.
The RDA was working to establish an alternative route to service people travelling between Feira and Luangwa, according to Saili.
