The following comes from the Border Mail, journalist SARAH DEAN. Photo: Tara Ashworth.

Students down as national park closed

Image: Tara Ashworth, Border Mail

A GROUP of school children stuck on Mount Buffalo after a landslide have been able to travel home this morning after a night spent on the peak.

Quick work by roads crews this morning saw a section of rock debris blocking Mount Buffalo Road to be blasted away allowing vehicles to descend from the peak.

The students from a Mansfield high school, some sightseers and a ranger were able to drive through a gap between boulders which fell on to the road about midday yesterday.

A VicRoads spokeswoman said the road not been closed from the bottom of the mountain and Parks Victoria had shut Mount Buffalo National Park for the weekend.

Works crews will continue to assess the best method to clear the boulders.

The students were among visitors forced to spend last night on the mountain after 300mm of rain this week triggered the landslide.

Machinery from Tallangatta was brought in late yesterday to start work on clearing the road.