Two persons died and five others have gone missing after an incessant rainfall-triggered landslide occurred at Bagmati rural municipality-5, Sikredobhan in Makawanpur district in Bagmati Province on Tuesday.
The deceased have been identified as Santa Maya Sotang, 55, and Sila Pahari, 22, of Sikredobhan of Bagmati rural municipality-5 in the district, according to Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, Spokesperson at the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Spokesperson Bhattarai shared that highways and roads have been obstructed by landslides in over a dozen of places across the country.
Monsoon-induced landslides and floods have incurred damages worth over Rs 1.1 million so far.
Efforts were underway to resume vehicular movements in the landslide-obstructed highways and roads, informed Bhattarai, adding details of the natural disasters were coming in.
Many places have been inundated while rainfall continued in some places, he said.
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