Locals of Rukum district have been deprived of communications services for the past three days after a lightning damaged a repeater station at Ratamata of Rolpa.

The GSM, CDMA and online services have been disrupted following the lightning strike, the Telecommunications Office, Rukum said.

Locals are unable to connect to each other following the disruption of all the services of the Nepal Telecom.

Musikot Municipality's local resident Gorakh Bahadur KC said the villagers are forced to head to other destinations for even minor works as the telecommunications services have not resumed yet.

The radio transmitter at the repeater station was destroyed in the lightning strike.

A technical team from Nepalgunj has already been dispatched to repair the breakdown.

Nepal Telecom Regional Directorate in Nepalgunj has stated that the resumption of services may take time due to snowfall in the alpine regions. RSS