Hundreds of people are killed annually by landslides and flash floods, which are frequent during the monsoon season in Nepal, which is primarily mountainous.
An official stated on Saturday that landslides caused by strong monsoon rains in western Nepal resulted in the deaths of at least nine persons, three of them were children.
According to Dizan Bhattarai, a spokeswoman for the National Disaster Rescue and Reduction Management Authority, a family in Malika village in Gulmi district, roughly 250 km (156 miles) west of Kathmandu, lost their home due to a landslip while the five family members were sleeping.
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“Bodies of all five have been recovered,” Bhattarai told Reuters, 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.
Since the beginning of the yearly monsoon rains in mid-June, at least 35 people have perished in landslides, floods, and lightning strikes around Nepal. Typically, the rainy season lasts until mid-September.
Landslides and flash floods are common in mostly mountainous Nepal during the monsoon season and kill hundreds of people every year.
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