At least 10 people died and four others got injured in landslides triggered by the continuous monsoon rains in the past few days in Tanahu, Syangja, Sindhulimadi, and Nawalparasi following incessant rainfall on Thursday and Friday alone.

Three members of a single house at Kinhu Village Development Committee-1 of Tanahu district died due to landslide Friday morning. They were buried in the debris of their own house.

Five other people died on Thursday night due to landslide at Chitrebhanjyang Village Development Committee-5 of Syangja district.

The three of the deceased were identified as a mother, Babita Rasaili, 28, her two daughters Aarati, and Amrita Rasaili, the District Police Office said. While the five other deceased died due to landslide that occurred on Thursday night were identified as Til Narayan Manandhar,83, Bhuwani Manandhar, 68, Jaumaya Manandhar, 35, Tika Maya Manandhar, 75 and Milan Manandhar, 9, of Hatiya VDC-5.

Police have reached to the spot only this Friday morning as the place of incident was far from the District Headquarters.

The landslide at Kinhu village took place at 2:00 a.m. on Friday early morning.

Locals and police have jointly involved in the rescue operation and the deceased were taken out from three feet down from the buried landslide.

Four of the injured were identified as Tej Narayan Manandhar, 48, Ganga Narayan Manandhar, 16, Tuka Narayan Manandhar and Mangali Manandhar, Manorath Sharma, former chairman of the district said.

Meanwhile, according to our Sindhulimadi Correspondent, a teenager girl died when she was swept away by the flood that came at Chandaha River in Tinpatan Area in Sindhuli.

The deceased has been identified as Tanka Maya Kingring, 19, a daughter of Pitambar Kingring of Bahuntilpung Village Development Committee-6, District Police Office said.

Tanka Maya was swept away by the swollen river while she was crossing the river for her work in her field.

The deceased body of Kingring has been brought to the District Headquarter for performing a postmortem.

Similarly, out of three, two of the people’s condition were still unknown who were swept away by the Kamala river four days ago. Four of them were swept by the floods while they were preparing to go for Bol Bom pilgrimage.

Of three disappeared, identification of one of the deceased man was yet to be known, Laxmi Thapa, Deputy Superintendent of Police said.

Likewise, our Parasi Correspondent repiorted, a man died after he was buried by a landslide at Bharatipur Village Development Committee of Nawalparasi district. The deceased was identified as Bhim Rana, 41, of Bharatipur VDC-7.

In Myagdi, 30 households at Singa VDC located in west belt of the district were facing displacement and erosion by the Thulokhola stream near the village.

The houses located near the stream were in imminent risk of being swept away by the swollen stream and also of numerous landslides falling down from the hillside above the village.

Likewise in Damak, the Dudhe-Mahavara road linking the southern belt of Jhapa district to the national highway, and two schools in the region are under the risk of floods.

Thousands of people in scores of villages in southern belt of the district have been affected by Kankai, Kamal and the Baniyani rivers.

These rivers have eroded and inundated cultivated land in the areas following

the incessant rains over the past few days.

The problem has been more acute in Shivagunj, Panchgachi, Mahavara, Karobari, Kumarkhod and Saranamati VDCs.

The Balkalyan Secondary School at Mahavara and the Indreni Primary School at Hoklabari are facing the risk from flood and inundation.

Meanwhile, the Falgunanda road linking Ilam and Panchathar districts has been cut off following the increased water level in the Ratuwakhola. Thousands of people living in the southern belt of Panchthar district and northern belt of Ilam district have faced problem due to the closure of the highway.

Similarly, in Bhimdattanagar, more than 1,000 of households are likely to be displaced by the floods as the dam set up at Mahakali River is going to be cut off continuously by the streams of the rivers.

People of Badaipur-12 and Odali-13 villagers are currently living in grave risks of possible floods.