MAHENDRANAGAR, Oct 6: A total of 34 persons died in separate landslides in the country Tuesday. Eighteen persons died in Achham district, 12 died in Dadeldhura, two in Bajhang and one each in Doti and Baitadi districts.
Thirteen people of four families in Patalkot-9, Bhasu in Achham died following a landslide at 11 a.m. while another person died in Bindyabasini-1, according to Chief District Officer (CDO) Gyan Prasad Dhakal. [break]
Funge Bohara, 22, Paru Bohara, 21, Jaldevi Bohara, 27, Jaukala Bohara, 3, Chadkirna Bohara, 14, Dipendra Bohara, 7, Mahesh Bohara, 5, Surat Bohara, 20, Tara Bohara, 19, Pabitra Bohara, 3, Penty Kumari Bohara, 10, and Kaili Kumari Bohara, 18, have been identified among the dead while one person, in Patalkot, and four others have not yet been identified. Four-year-old Mukesh Sarki died in Bindyabasini.
CDO Dhakal said 50 more houses in Patalkot are under threat and the inhabitants have been shifted to safer places.
Our reporter Barun Paneru reports from Dadeldhura that landslide struck Garkhagaun village in Mastamandu-1 at 3 a.m. Tuesday, flattening three houses. One of the houses was uninhabited and all the dead in the district are from the other two houses, police said.
Dambar Bhul, 40, his 35-year-old wife Matadevi, seven-year-old daughter Suna Kumari, four-year-old son Thagi and niece Hema, 11, died along with Bijay Bhul, 35, his wife Padma, 24, mother Lalidevi, 60, and sons Ramesh, 14, and Binod, 8. Six-month-old Basanti also died in the incident.
Police rescued two members of Dambar´s family. Injured siblings Pune, 8, and Bisnhu, 6, were rescued, according to Dadeldhura police chief Chakra Bahadur Singh.
Meanwhile, a team from the Nepal Army reseced two persons from a landslide in the Garkha area of Mastamandu.
Similarly Dil Bahadur Chhatyal reports from Bajhang that the daughters of Dhanraj Upadhyaya of Majhigaun-3 died after a landslide swept away their house Tuesday morning following three days of continuous rainfall. Juna Kumari, 18, and Panchakala, 3, were buried in the rubble and died, police said.
Likewise, Purna Bista, 5, of Silgadhi-14, Pagari in Doti district died after a landslide destroyed Tilak Bista´s house Tuesday morning. Similarly Mahesh Sarki died in a landslide at Malladehi-7, Baitadi.
Meanwhile, our Bardiya correspondent reports that one Dharma Tharu of Thakurdwara-9 is missing after being swept away by the raging Khauraha river. Police said 12 persons including a boatman on the river were rescued after a boat capsized at Bankatti Ghat.
In Dadeldhura, 15 houses at Boharatole of Garkhagaun village are also under threat from landslide.
DSP Singh said additional police have been sent to the village about 35 km from district headquarters, considering the impending threat. Similarly, 40 families in Navadurga VDC have been moved to a local school after incessant rain started to damage their houses.
The district witnessed continuous rainfall for the past three days and Chief District Officer Rajendra Prasad Ghimire said he has received reports of destruction in other different parts of the district also. Transport links with the hill districts of the far-western region have been disrupted since Monday by landslides at different points on the Bhimdutta Highway.
Likewise, paddies belonging to hundreds of families in the inner Tarai parts of the district have been flooded while police and army personnel have been displaced to a community forest office after flooding in the Ranggon river inundated the Area Police Office and the army base camp at Jogbuda Bazar.
The district meteorological office has said the district received 210 mm of rain, the highest for the last 20 years, by Tuesday afternoon.
Meanwhile our Dhangadhi correspondent reports that more than 500 families from different villages in Kailali district have been displaced and hundreds of bigahas of paddy inundated due to incessant rain for the past three days.
Almost the entire main markets in Dhangadi have also been submerged, with three to four feet of water in the roads.
Likewise, our Kanchanpur correspondent reports that dozens of villages have been inundated, displacing dozens of families and ruining hundreds of bigahas of paddy.
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