The district hospital is ill-equipped and faces a shortage of essential medicines and infrastructure.

The agitating students have padlocked TNT Technical College and Syarputal Engineering College.

Police fired several rounds of bullets on Tuesday afternoon to contain the situation.

Aathbiskot Municipality has selected students from economically weak backgrounds for the three-year-programme.

Last year, the District Food Management Committee in Dolpa had allocated 3,000 quintals of foodgrains to upper Dolpa but the grains have yet to be supplied to the region.

As per the revised calendar, schools in Aathbiskot Municipality will run classes throughout the week to compensate for classes missed amid Covid-19 fear.

Several local units in the two districts have enhanced the institutional capacity of health facilities and initiated ambulance services for people in rural areas.

The Food Management and Trading Company Limited could not transport food to Mugu due to lockdown and disruption of Namga-Gamgadhi road by floods and landslides.

Authorities say continuous rainfall has hampered the search and rescue operation.

Police arrested three more people on Wednesday in connection to the incident.

On Thursday, Rukum (West) District court extended the remand of 18 individuals for 10 more days.

Police have arrested 18 people, including Dambar Bahadur Malla, the ward chairman of Chaurjahari Ward No. 8, over their involvement in the alleged murder.

Karnali state legislators call for an impartial investigation into the Dalit killings and punishment for the perpetrators.

Survivors of the incident and victims’ families say locals and people’s representatives in Rukum (West) are trying to save the perpetrators of the crime by misguiding the investigation.

Search is on for another missing person, police say.