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Police, locals continue search for Kalikot landslide victims
Police and local residents continued their search on Saturday for three persons, who have been missing in the flash floods and landslides triggered by rains at Gejbazaar in Kotwada VDC-5.Tularam Pandey
Police and local residents continued their search on Saturday for three persons, who have been missing in the flash floods and landslides triggered by rains at Gejbazaar in Kotwada VDC-5.
Sanjite Tamata, 52, of Seuna-2; Maniram Jaisi of Raku-1 and two-month-old Abhishek Sarki of Gotri in Bajura were swept away on Thursday night.
Namaraj Subedi, a relative of Jaisi, said they had not been able to locate them. The victims’ relatives have asked the local administration to declare them dead. “We have no hope that they will be found alive,” said Haja Sunar, daughter of Tamata.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Kisansingh Budal said they had little hope of rescuing them alive. Floods and landslides in the local stream had killed four people in Kotwada on Thursday.
According to the local administration, 20 houses were destroyed and 52 others affected.
Gebazaar residents are left in the lurch. Naresh Bhandari, a hotelier, said he had lost all his belongings.
According to our Chitwan correspondent, two persons died in a flood in Riu Khola on Friday evening. Police identified the deceased as Bishnu Adhikari, 55, and Kalpana Thapa, 35, of Madi Municipality-12.
“The bodies were found in Dibyanagar area,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police Deepak Shrestha. “They were swept away by the river while trying to cross the stream,” said Shrestha.
In Palpa district, seven houses of Sera village are at high risk of landslide along the Pipaldanda-Rampur stretch of Kaligandaki Corridor. “Soil and boulders have started flowing from the cliff,” Shanti Adhikari told our local correspondent.