An official Home Ministry report Monday said five more persons were killed by floods and landslides in Kaski and Udaipur raising the death toll to 242 in the most recent natural disaster since last Sunday in at least 30 of the kingdom’s 75 administrative districts.
A landslide in Tehrathum Sunday killed four persons, injured six others while five others are missing, local officials said. Floods and landslides have killed three persons in Panchthar and Kavre Sunday, officials said.
Nobody was injured when a landslide swept away 12 houses displacing 14 families at Khandbari in Sankhuwasabha overnight. The district headquarters is without water after the mudslide partially washed away the drinking water system, local officials said. nepalnews.com br July 29