Dreams shattered in Jhyaplekhola landslide

Families grieve the deaths of young talents and newly wed couple. Thirty-five bodies retrieved from the site where three vehicles were buried Friday night.

Fifteen-year-old twins Dipesh and Deepika Bhattarai, who were buried to death at Jhyaplekhola in Dhading, were 10th graders at Butwal-based Kalika Manav Gyan Secondary School in Butwal. They were on their way to Kathmandu with their mother to pursue a dream, but that dream perished when the microbus they were travelling in was buried by the landslide.