It is reported that the road which was blocked after a period of almost two hours was reopened after a large black rock on the bank of the Ratnapura-Colombo main road in Parakaduwa, Thiriwana area rolled onto a part of the road.
This blockage which happened this morning (09) hindered the traffic on the road.
It said that when the stone fell, the telephone wires and poles along the main road fell and the wires also fell on the ground and there were no casualties in the accident.
A part of a small building on the side where the stone fell was damaged and no one was there at the time of the accident.
The residents of the area together removed the branches of the trees that had fallen on the road and made arrangements for the vehicular traffic.
At the time of this stone fall, there was a lot of traffic on the Ratnapura main road in Colombo, but there were no vehicles on the road at that time.