Four persons went missing after a landslide swept away a house at Topatar in Gaurishankar Rural Municipality-7 of Dolakha district on Thursday. Three were rescued in an injured condition.
The landslides damaged half-a-dozen houses in Topatar of Marbu and Salle of Khare and also swept away a concrete bridge in Topataram.
The landslide buried the settlement that fell from a cliff of Khare at around 5 pm yesterday.
According to information provided by Sonam Sherpa, Chairman of Marbu, through telephone, the landslide buried five houses.
The locals said that Yagya Thami, his wife and another person were injured in the incident. They were rescued in an injured state.
Krishna Bahadur Magar (55), his wife Dev Magar (55), Hari Lal Shrestha (55) and three-year-old Price Thami have gone missing.
Chairman Sherpa said that security personnel with the help of locals are searching for them.
Preparations are underway to airlift three persons injured in the incident to the Capital by a helicopter for treatment.
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