Ten persons were buried to death in landslides in Tanahun and Baglung district on Thursday night.
A landslide triggered by heavy rains hit the house of Sai Bahadur Sunar at Jamune VDC in Tanahun, killing two women and five minor girls. The site is about 10 km north-west of the district headquarters, Damauli.
The dead have been identified as Rupa Sunar (24) and her daughters Purnima (8) and Dibya (6); Sushma BK (17) and her 14-month-old daughter Rekha, Samjhana BK (15) and Durga BK (15).
The villagers came to know of the incident only on Friday morning when Chijmaya, a neighbour and a relative of the victims, went to the house.
“I went there after they failed to show up at the fields in the morning. The door was locked. I peeped in through the front window and saw them buried under the debris of the back wall if the house that had collapsed,” said Chijmaya.
A police team reached the site at around 9 am and fished out the bodies. They were then taken to Tanahun District Hospital for post-mortem.
The house belonging to the poor Dalit family was built three months ago on a slope. Sai Bahadur went to India for work after he constructed the house.
The District Administration Office provided Rs 40,000 for each of the dead to the next of kin of the victims. In Baglung, three persons died when a landslide buried the house of Tek Bahadur Khatri at Hatiya-3. Khatri’s wife Pabitra, Laxmi Sunar of Resh Village Development Committee in the district and her three-year-old son Sudip were buried to death in the incident.
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