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Six dead, four missing in two landslides in Syangja

Six dead, four missing in two landslides in Syangja

By Bharat Koirala

Security Personnel and locals search for the missing people in the Tamagi landslide in Waling Municipality-14, Syangja, on Thursday, September 24, 2020. Photo: Rishi Baral/THT

POKHARA: Incessant rainfall has led to landslides in two places – Kaligandaki Rural Municipality and Waling Municipality – of Syangja district on Thursday. Two people were buried under the earth as a mass of land fell from above at 3 am in Kaligandaki Rural Municipality. One of them, a 16-year-old boy, Bishnu Bahadur Pariyar of Gautam tol, Kaligandaki-4, lost his life in the landslide. Meanwhile in Waling-14, the mudslide that hit the area at around 6 am buried as many as nine people from Maya Nepali's family. They were ten people in the family. One of them – Manisha Nepali (16) was rescued alive. She was seriously injured and has been taken to Pokhara for treatment. Of the nine missing people, five – Umakala Nepali (27), Maya Nepali (48), Deepak Nepali (30), Sani Nepali (60) and Bibesh Nepali (9) – were found dead, informed Provincial Police Office Pokhara. A team of Nepal Police personnel under the command of Police Inspector of Waling Ward Police Office, along with a troop of Armed Police Force are searching the missing people.