Seven disappear when landslide takes away houses

Kathmandu - Santosh Gautam As many as seven persons went missing in a torrential rain-triggered landslide at Rikha of Dhaulagiri rural municipality-6, Marang in Myagdi this morning. Marang ward chair Rajaram Subedi informed seven members of two families went disappeared in the debris of landslide fallen from Ghantiwang.

The landslide has swept away the houses of Bhim Prasad Jumjali and Dhan Prasad Jumjali, he added. There were four members at the house of Bhim Prasad and three in Dhan Bahadur. Lok Bahadur Pun, a local and ward member, informed the landslide had rounded up Ghantiwang village located in a steep slope hill.