Landslide kills five more in Sankhuwasabha

September 28, 2001
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A landslide triggered by rains killed five more members of a family overnight at Dhuru village in Sankhuwasabha, about 500 kilometers east of Kathmandu, police said.

The landslide swept away house of Yakha Rai, his wife Tirtha Rai and their three children (a son and two daughters), according to police.

A police team has been sent to the village to retrieve the bodies from the rubble. Four family members were killed and two others were injured in another village in the district when a landslide swept their home.