Kathmandu. Seven people have been killed and seven others have gone missing in the last 24 hours due to landslides in different districts of the country. The deceased have been identified as Nawalparasi West, Rupandehi, Kailali, Dang, Udaipur, and Lalitpur. Similarly, three persons have gone missing in Nawalparasi East, one each in Nawalparasi West, Rupandehi, Kailali, and Lalitpur.
The dead included five men and two women. Among the missing are five women and two men. The deceased have been identified as Binod Pyasi of Ramgram Municipality-18 Pamphapur and his 13-year-old son Pradip Pyasi. According to the police, the father and son drowned while going to a neighbor’s house after the landslide.
According to District Police Chief Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Yadav, the incident took place on Friday morning. Similarly, 10-year-old Alisa Tamang of Sunwal Municipality-14 has gone missing. Yadav informed that she has gone missing and is being searched for. Similarly, Parameshwar Karna, 55, of Omastiya Gaonpalika-4 of Rupandehi died after being washed away by the Rohini River on Friday afternoon.
Bablu Lodh, 23, of Sammarimai Gaonpalika-3 has gone missing due to the flood in Tinau River in Rupandehi, police said. Bamdev Devkota, 50, of Dangisharan Gaonpalika-1 of Dang has died after being swept away by the Babai River. He died when he was swept away by the Babai River while taking a bath on Friday morning, police said. His body was found about 500 meters below by the locals.
Similarly, Sanju Singtan, 40, of Bagmati Gaonpalika-6 Ashrang and Ward No. 7 Gimdi of Lalitpur died when the river overflowed on Friday. According to the Metropolitan Police Circle, Chapagaun, Unisa Bamjan, a 9-year-old girl, went missing along with her.
Similarly, 95-year-old Fupiya Tharu, a resident of Lamkichuha Municipality-6, Kailali, died when the Gulra River overflowed. Spokesperson of the District Police Office, Kailali, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Prateek Bista, informed that Tharu, who was washing clothes, was swept away by the flood. According to Bista, Tharu’s body was found about 7 km away after the floods.
Puran Rana, 28, of Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolis-3 has gone missing after being swept away in the Mohona River on his way to Kailali from Kanchanpur. Rana, who had gone to Kanchanpur with two friends to paint his house, went missing after being swept away by the river on his way back in the evening.
According to the police, a child was killed in a landslide in Udayapur. The deceased has been identified as Karna Magar, 7, son of Posta Bahadur Magar of Milan Chowk in Katari Municipality-2. According to the District Police Office, Karna, who had gone to play in the Amkhare River near his house, was seriously injured in the landslide. He died on the way to Katari Hospital for treatment, police said.
The bodies of two grandchildren, including a grandmother, have not been found yet Three persons who went missing in a landslide in Hupsekot village east of Nawalparasi have not been found yet. Dhanmaya Pulami, 40, of Hupsekot-4 and her two granddaughters Bhumisara Pulami, 7, and Deumaya Pulami, 6 are missing, according to police.
Chief Superintendent of Police, District Police Office, Nawalparasi East, Prakash Malla said that the search for the missing was ongoing. “After a day’s effort, only the motorcycle buried in the landslide was recovered,” said Malle. “It is not possible to remove the landslide by hand.
The house of 50-year-old Hasta Bahadur Pulami was completely damaged by the landslide at around 2 pm on Thursday. Hasta Bahadur was killed in the landslide. He was immediately rescued by locals and taken to a nearby school. He has been taken to Madhyabindu District Hospital for treatment.
A team of Armed Police Force and Nepal Police have reached the spot as soon as they came to know about the disappearance of the victim, police said. Roads and houses have collapsed in different parts of the country due to floods and landslides, while hundreds of houses in the Terai district have been submerged. Many properties have been damaged.
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