Two go missing when house buried by landslide

Kathmandu - Two persons have gone missing when landslide triggered by continuous rainfall buried a house at Bulingtar Rural Municipality-2 in Nawalpur. According to rural municipality chair Shashi Kiran Bastakoti, the missing are 61-year-old Sher Bahadur Nepali and his wife 57-year-old Khin Maya Nepali.

He added that search is on for the missing. It is learnt that some cattle were also missing in the incident. According to district police office Nawalparasi East, a police team from Bulingtar police post has reached to the incident site. Meanwhile, a pick up van (Lu 2 Cha 6171) heading to Pitari from Dumkibas was swept away by a local river last night. According to police, however, no human casualty was reported in the incident.