Around 20 children are reported to have died due to lack of timely treatment of diarrhoea in the remote hilly area of Khin village in Kalikot district in north-western Nepal.

Newspaper reports said these children suffering from the disease died due to lack of medicines and health workers in the last one month.

Reports further said that some 300 people in the area are infected with the disease.

Local villagers who arrived in district headquarters looking for medicines disclosed the information of the spread of the disease. The Chief District Officer Omkar Prasad Neupane said a team of five health workers has been deployed to the area with necessary medicines.

Similarly, latest reports say over 100 residents in Gaidakot of Rautahat district in the central terai have been suffering from the disease since a few days.

Lack of clean drinking water and medical facilities have added to the woes of the villagers. Medical team has not reached the area yet.