A house has been damaged and seven households left the settlement owing to risk of landslides at Milijulitole of Shuklagandaki Municiplaity-8 in Tanahun district.
A house belonging to Chitra Maya Baniya is completely buried in landslide while others are in imminent risk. According to Ward Chair Krishna Prasad Regmi, the family of Baniya has been shifted to safer zone.
He added that the houses of Im Bahdur Baniya, Tuk Bahadur Shrestha, Shiva Kumari Shrestha, Shanti Thapa, Dil Bahadur Khatri and Kavita Bhattarai are in high risks of possible landslide.
The landslides have swept away the fertile lands at Dahare, Chanute, Lalim and surrounding area in the district. Meanwhile, a house of local Prem Bahadur Bhujel at Bhanu Municiplaity-10 has been buried in landslide. Food grains and cattle also perished in the disaster.
Meanwhile, electricity supply has been disrupted in different places forcing 8,000 households in darkness. The electric poles were pulled down by the landslides.
According to chief of power distribution centre here Sovit Bahdur Chhetri, electricity was disrupted at Vyas and Bhanu Municipalities and Bandipur Rural Municipality.
Source: National News Agency Nepal