SARLAHI: As many as four members of the same family have gone missing after being swept away by a river in Sarlahi.

Radhika Dhungana (29) and her sons Kismat (7) and Kriti (1) and daughter Kritika (5) were washed away by flooded Lakhandehi River on Monday.

The river was swollen following the rainfall in the afternoon. The family suffered the misfortune as Dhungana and her children were on the way to her paternal home at Jiyajor of Sarlahi from Bara to receive the Dashain tika, police said.