A rock slide just outside of Keremeos closed Highway 3 in both directions Sunday night.
In a tweet, Drive BC says the highway is affected for more than five kilometres, beginning about three kilometres west of Keremeos.
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Video sent to Global News captured flashes of light and sound of the slide as it happened. A local power outage was reported as well.
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A detour is in effect, driver can use Highway 97,5 and 5-A.
As of right now, there is no estimate on when that road will reopen.
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