Nepal

Eight people died and three others went missing when a landslide triggered by incessant rain buried them on Monday afternoon. 

The incident occurred at Salim, Chhayanath Rara Municipality-11, the District Police Office, Mugu said. Four of the deceased are women. All the deceased had stayed in the same house due to fear of a landslide. All of them died on the spot in the incident. 

However, the identity of the deceased and those missing in the disaster has not been ascertained yet, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Subas Hamal. 

A police team from Gamgadhi has reached the incident site to search for the missing. However, continuous rainfall has hampered search operations. There are around 35 households in Salim village. He added that all the families had been shifted to safer places after the landslide. 

A helicopter that was supposed to come from Surkhet to rescue the victims could not reach the incident site until Monday evening. 

Similarly, 10 houses have collapsed due to a landslide in the Chhayanath Municipality-8. The entire settlement at the location is at high risk of landslide. 

Twenty-five sheep were killed and property worth hundreds of thousands of rupees was damaged when a house collapsed following incessant rainfall at Topla Gaun, Chhayanath Rara Municipality-7. In addition, many people in the Topla, Sigadi, and Ghuira villages have fled their homes due to landslide fear. 

Likewise, a helicopter that came to rescue the landslide victims in the neigbhouring Kalikot district returned to Surkhet, and it would come on Tuesday early morning.

Meanwhile, power generated from different rivulets has been disrupted in the district after a landslide swept away the water source, said the Chief District Officer of Kalikot Rom Bahadur Mahat. In addition, the communication service remains disrupted in the district. – RSS