By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, July 30: Landslides and floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed 12 people while four others went missing in separate districts on Wednesday.
According to Joint Secretary and spokesperson at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) Murari Wosti, nine were buried to death in landslides in two villages of Kalikot district, two in Dang and one in Dolakha.
He said that so far 160 people had lost their lives, 90 were injured and 58 went missing since the onset of monsoon from June 12.
According to our Kalikot correspondent, nine persons were buried to death in two separate landslides, which occurred in Naraharinath Rural Municipality-4 and 7 of Kalikot district on Wednesday morning.
According to ward chairman of the Rural Municipality Dhir Bahadur Bista, the landslides that fell at Godi and Banga villages of Ward Nos. 4 and 7, buried nine persons to death.
Two were injured in the disaster, Bista said. Identifications of the deceased are yet to be confirmed, he said.
The incident spot lies some 29 kilometres away from the district headquarters Manma.
Meanwhile, a woman and her daughter died when a landslide hit their home at Sakine of Bangalachuli Rural Municipality-5 in Dang district early in the morning on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Batuli Nepali, 24, and her two-year-old daughter Ayushma, according to ward chairman of the Rural Municipality Bhakta Bahadur Oli.
800 houses waterlogged in Kailali
Four persons have gone missing in a flood in the local Patharaiya river in Bhajani Municipality-8 in Kailali district. Two have been, however, rescued safely.
In the incident, 11-year-old boy Skel Choudhary, Ishwar Sah, 40, Chakra BK, and another unidentified man went missing in the flood of the river, according to DSP Pratik Bista.
Over 800 houses were waterlogged in Kailali district due to floods and inundation triggered by continuous rains for a couple of days.
According to information officer Shivaraj Joshi, heavy rains have inundated Bhajani Municipality, Joshipur Rural Municipality, Bardagoriya

Rural Municipality, Tikapur Municipality and Janaki Rural Municipality. The district has received heavy rains from Tuesday morning.
Of all the inundated places, 518 houses, the highest number, submerged in Bhajani Municpality. Mainly Ward Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 8 of the municipality have been affected by the inundation.
Similarly, 35 houses in Joshipur Rural Municipality, 197 in Tikapur Municipality, 19 in Bardagoriya, and 16 in Janaki Rural Municipality have been inundated, according to Chetan Khadka of Emergency Operation Centre, Kailali.
Some seriously affected families have been shifted to safer places. Meanwhile, water level in the Karnali River dropped when measured on Wednesday afternoon. The water level of the river came down to nine metres from above 10 metres.
Makeshift shelters to landslide victims
Locals of Marshyangdi Rural Municipality have started building temporary shelters for people who had been rendered homeless by the landslides at Tarapu Pallotari village in Lamjung.
According to Arjun Gurung, chairman of the Rural Municipality, they have been building bamboo-made temporary shelters to the locals who are forced to take shelters in community buildings, and homes of their friends and relatives.
Locals have been voluntarily contributing to construct temporary shelters. The villagers have constructed 10 temporary shelters as of Wednesday, according to coordinator Rabi Thapa of Temporary Shelter Construction Sub-Committee.
According to Prem Bahadur Basnet, chairman of Ward No. 3, they have collected Rs. 1 million in the Disaster Management Committee Fund. The available budget will be spent in the management of landslide victims, he said.
(With inputs from District Correspondents of Kailai, Dang and Lamjung)