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Gorkha landslide kills three

A landslide in Shahid Lakhan Rural Municipality of Gorkha, on Wednesday, July 18, 2018.

Gorkha, July 18

Three persons including an infant have died after a landslide buried a house in Andheri, Shahid Lakhan Rural Municipality-6 of Gorkha district on Wednesday.

When the landslide triggered by incessant rainfall buried the house of Nawaraj Kunwar; 10-year-old Prabina Kunwar, 20-year-old Saru Kunwar, and Saru’s eight-month-old son Unique died, according to locals.

Local Ram Krishna Shrestha says the incident occurred at around 6:30 in the morning today. After the landslide buried the house, locals had demolished another wall to find them dead.

Saru was a niece of the house owner Nawaraj and she was there to attend a religious function there.

Two persons have sustained minor injuries in the incident.

Meanwhile, the landslide has put some other houses also at risk.

Police have sent a team to the site for rescue and relief operations.

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