Twenty-three houses were completely damaged by an earthquake at Bichchhya in Himali Rural Municipality-2 of Bajura district on Friday. An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale with its epicenter at Dahakot, Gaumul Rural Municipality struck the district at 1.30 am. Chief Administrative Officer of Himali Rural Municipality Raj Bahadur Bhandari said that 23 houses were damaged by the tremor in Bichchhya.

The houses of Dhanjit Budha, Dantir Budha, Joblal Budha, Naule Budha, Dil Bahadur Budha and Saurmal Rokaya were completely damaged.

Similarly, the houses of Basu Rokaya, Surendra Budha, Duwalal Budha, Dev Bahadur Budha, Pancha Rokaya, Surendra Budha, Jaggi Bohara, Saimal Bohara, Surja Bohara, Jas Thapa, Bhayadhan Thapa, Purna Thapa, Kusum Khadka, Bachmal Rokaya, Kala Rokaya, Surja Khadka and Gellal Khadka were also completely damaged by the quake. Chief District Officer Pushkar Khadka said that the district administration is collecting the information on the damage caused by the earthquake in coordination with the Chief Administrative Officer and the rural municipality ward chairperson.