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Four dead, two missing as landslide buries house in Humla
Search underway for the missing two, police say.bookmark
Janak Bahadur Shahi
Published at : October 20, 2021
Updated at : October 20, 2021 13:11
Humla
Four people died and two others went missing after a landslide buried a house in Kharpunath Rural Municipality, Humla on Tuesday.
District police said the landslide struck the house of one Dhanbire Shahi at Bichdauda village, burying six people.
A couple and their two sons aged five and three have been found dead at the incident site but Shahi and his 11-year-old son remain missing, said DSP Heramba Sharma, the district police chief.
He said security personnel were deployed to the incident site on Wednesday morning for search and rescue work.
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E-PAPER | September 25, 2023
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