Forty-four people are feared dead after a landslide swept away 37 houses in Lidi in Jugal Rural Municipality, Sindhupalchowk, this morning. Bodies of 10 locals have been recovered from the landslide debris, while 34 people have gone missing.

Among the bodies recovered by Nepali Army, Nepal Police and locals, four were that of children.

A landslide survivor being airlifted from Lidi in Jugal, Sindhupalchowk, to be taken to Kathmandu for treatment, on Friday, August 14, 2020. Photo: RSS

Fourteen people injured in the incident were airlifted to Sindhupalchowk headquarters Chautara and Kathmandu for treatment. Locals suspect that more than 34 people might have gone missing in the mudslide.

Identities of five deceased have been established. They are Tikayama Dong, 32, Tshering Dong, 17, Bitai Dong, 79, Jaya Bahadur Dong, 65, and Milan Dong,10.

Speaker of the House of Representatives Agni Prasad Sapkota reached the incident site and urged security forces and locals to speed up the search for those missing in the landslide. Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, accompanied by Secretary Maheshwor Neupane, had reached the incident site to provide relief to victims’ families. Thapa gave away tents, clothes and food items to the victims’ families.

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