Work completed on tunnel for railway link


Ahead of schedule: The China Railway No 5 Engineering Group (CREC-5) posing with a banner in front of the tunnel. — Xinhua

WORK on the country’s third longest tunnel at Namor district in Oudomxay province, which is part of the Laos-China Railway Project, has been completed.

The Laos-China Railway Company informed the media that the excavation of the railway tunnel which is over 9km-long was successfully completed on Wednesday amid the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown.

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