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1500 people was caught in the Mud-rock flow happened in Highway 314 in Xinjiang

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At 6 pm on July 27th, there was a mud-rock flow happened in highway 314. More than 500 vehicles and more than 1500 people were caught in this accident.  

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After research, the reason for the mud-rock flow is that high temperature made snow melting. There are 5 small mud-rock flows in 7 hours. In some serious section, 25 meters of road is full of sand and rocks, and the volume of the sand and rocks is almost thousand cubic meters.

Fortunately, it happened during night and there's no property lose and there's no people hurt.

The traffic became normal at 2 am on 28th.

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