Twenty Houses at Risk as Landslip Continues in Eastern Villages

20 Houses at Risk as Landslip Continues in Eastern Villages

THT Online
Biratnagar, June 22

The landslide at Mantewa, a remote VDC in Sankhuwasabha district, continuing since yesterday, has swept away dozens of heads of livestock. Over 20 houses are also at risk.
The landslide has swept away arable land in wards 1, 4, 6 and 9 of the VDC, assistant sub-inspector at the Sankhuwasabha District Police Office Lal Bahadur Tamang said over phone. Police personnel have been sent for rescue work, he said.
The risk of landslide has increased in Mantewa-3 after the edges of the pond at Salpa Pokhari crumbled yesterday, the Mantewa police post said.
The movement of people has also been disrupted after the landslide swept away a suspension bride over the Chongduwa River, a teacher, Devendra Katwal, said.
The landslide that began at 6 am swept away livestock. People have been told to move to a safer spot, Sankhuwasabha CDO Bishworaj Pokhrel said.
As the site lies some 24 miles north of the district headquarters, Red Cross workers have not been able to reach there yet. Police have been deployed at the site since yesterday.
The landslide swept away land belonging to farmers, including Prem Rai, Bal Bahadur Rai and Bali Kumar Rai, locals said.
A report from Solukhumbu said 24 families, including those of of Sarbjeet Rai, Baliram Rai, Ram Singh, Jawar Singh Rai at Solusalleri-5, are at risk due to a landslide that has been occurring for three days, the Biratnagar regional police office (RPO) said. According to the RPO, land and a three-storey house of Bishnu Rai was swept away, causing a loss of Rs 5 lakh.
A report from Phidim said some 20 houses in wards 4 and 6 of Chyangthapu VDC are at risk due to landslide following incessant rain.
Some 200 ropani of cultivatable land at Samrjung was swept away by the landslide, locals said. People living in some 20 households at Chyangthapu-3 and 9 are thinking of shifting to their relatives' houses due to fear of landslide, a teacher, Yagya Bhattarai, said.
Six houses were displaced and some 100 ropani of cardamom fields in the area were swept by landslides last year, Bhattarai said. "A primary school located in the area is also facing the risk of being swept away. Some 10 Gurung and Rai households live in the area," he said. "There will be dangerous consequences if the landslide continues," a local Chandra Bahadur Rai said.

Source: THT