Beaver closes section of Swiss motorway
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Published: 22 Sep, 2015 CET.
Updated: Tue 22 Sep 2015 21:28 CET
Police have blamed a beaver for shutting down a section of Switzerland’s A1 motorway, the major route connecting eastern and western parts of the country.
A lane of the motorway was blocked for most of the day in the Courgevaux area of the canton of Fribourg on Monday because of a landslide caused by the busy rodent, cantonal police said on Tuesday.
Several tonnes of earth and rock covered the roadway early in the morning and it took a crew with earth-moving equipment until the evening to clear it up, police said.
The beaver had blocked a stream running parallel to the motorway.
Pressure from the water burst a retaining wall, triggering the landslide, police said.
There was no information on what happened to the beaver.
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A lane of the motorway was blocked for most of the day in the Courgevaux area of the canton of Fribourg on Monday because of a landslide caused by the busy rodent, cantonal police said on Tuesday.
Several tonnes of earth and rock covered the roadway early in the morning and it took a crew with earth-moving equipment until the evening to clear it up, police said.
The beaver had blocked a stream running parallel to the motorway.
Pressure from the water burst a retaining wall, triggering the landslide, police said.
There was no information on what happened to the beaver.
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