Man moves mountain to park truck in Patna

Reuters

Patna: A villager used a hammer and chisel over the span of 14 years to carve a tunnel through a rocky mountain so that he could park his truck in front of his house.

"I could not park my truck near my house since the mountain blocked my path," Ramchandra Das, 53, who lives in eastern Bihar state's Gaya district, told Reuters.

Ramchandra Das said fear of thieves stealing his truck prompted him to work on the tunnel all by himself after authorities refused help.

Man moves mountain to park truck in Patna

"I had to leave my truck miles away, so I decided to do something about it myself," said Das.

Local villagers, who had to trek for miles to get around the mountain are using the 14 feet (4.2 metre) wide tunnel to reach their farms, and praising Das for his work.

"We rarely come across a man who can work so hard to achieve his goal," said a local government official, Prabhat Kumar Jha.

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