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.