PANJAKENT, Febraury 29, Asia-Plus  -- Work on removing effects of avalanches that have occurred on the Shahriston Pass in the Sughd provinces over the past ten days were completed Thursday evening and traffic via the pass has resumed.  

Zafar Mirzoboshiyev, the chief of the Ayni emergency management agency, told Asia-Plus on Friday that more than 40 avalanches have occurred on the Shahriston Pass over the past tend days.         

            We will recall that the first avalanche that occurred on the pass on February 21 killed two persons, including one Chinese national, who worked with China’s company China Road, which currently digs a tunnel under the Shahriston Pass.           

            Another avalanche that occurred on the pass the same day trapped 12 trucks and one car (in all, more than 20 people).  They managed to continue their travel only Thursday evening.  

Tajikistan has witnessed hundreds of avalanches since the beginning of the year.  11 people have been killed din those avalanches.