By Our Correspondent
Bajura, July 1: As many as 124 households, including 27 families of the Himali Rural Municipality-4, in the northern Bajura district, and 97 households in Quidi village, in Ward No. 5, are having to live under tarpaulins after the incessant rains-triggered landslide swept through the entire villages on June 12 and 17.
Dalbir Sarki, a local of the ward, said that the village was put at risk of landslide after the road above it was washed away by the flood and that many people, including children were now forced to take shelter under a small tarpaulin.
He added that there was nothing to eat.
Ammalal Karki, ward chairperson of the municipality, said that continuous rains had put the entire village at risk of floods after the road above the village started collapsing.
Information officer of the municipality Param Pandey said that work to collect data of the households affected by the floods and landslides was underway.
Chief District Officer at the District Administration Office, Bajura, Gopal Kumar Adhikari, said that a team of security personnel from the office had been dispatched to gather information about the situation in Himali and Swamikartik villages.