Girl dies as house collapses due to incessant rainfall in Kalikot

SURKHET: A girl died after a house collapsed in Kalikot following torrential rainfall on Tuesday.

The deceased has been identified as Smirti Adhikari of Mahawai Rural Municipality-7.

Talking to Nepal Press over phone, Khem Singh, former personal secretary of Chief Minister Mahendra Bahadur Shahi, said that Adhikari’s sister Anisha Adhikari sustained injuries in the incident that occurred this morning.

He said that 15 houses in Mahawai Rural Municipality-7 are at high risk and the people have been shifted to nearby local Ram Secondary School.