Four killed as landslide buries three houses in Lamjung

LAMJUNG: Four persons died when a landslide buried three houses at Bagum of Kwoholasothar Rural Municipality-3 in Lamjung district last night.

They had gone missing since the incident and their bodies have been found now, Chitra Ghale, a local, said.

According to Ghale, those killed in the incident are Rudra Man Gurung (67), his daughter-in-law Pancha Kumari Gurung (36) and granddaughters Namrata Gurung (4) and Ichchha Gurung (8).

Police and locals retrieved their bodies from the landslide debris, it has been learnt.

Three houses in the locality were buried by the landslide while three remained unscathed, it was shared.

Meanwhile, a person died due to lightning at Tallo Kemligaon of Kwoholasothar Rural Municipality-7 last night.

He is 65-year-old Dan Bahadur Gharti.

Lightning struck him when he came out of his house for loo, said Police Inspector Meghnath Chapagain at the District Police Office, Lamjung.

Thirty-eight-year-old Ram Chandra Adhikari of Dhad Kalaunche, Rainas Municipality-9 was injured in the lightning strike, Police Inspector Chapagain said.

Adhikari is undergoing treatment at Namuna Hospital in Sundarbazar.

An ox belonging to Madan Pariyar also died due to lightning strike at Shera of Beshisahar Municipality-6 in the district.