Landslides kill nine, including three children

At least nine people, including three children, were killed after heavy monsoon rains in west Nepal triggered landslides, an official said.

Five members of a family were sleeping when their house was washed away by a landslide in Malika village in Gulmi district, about 250km west of Kathmandu, according to Dizan Bhattarai, a spokesman for the National Disaster Rescue and Reduction Management Authority.

“Bodies of all five have been recovered,” Bhattarai said on Saturday, adding that the family included two children.

In neighbouring Syangja district, one woman and her three-year-old daughter died in a landslide that swept away their house, while in Baglung district, which borders Gulmi, two people were killed in another landslide. — Reuters