Jhyaplekhola landslide update: Death toll reaches 35, twenty-one bodies retrieved today

MALEKHU (DHADING), Sept 29: Rescuers on Sunday recovered twenty-one bodies from the debris of a landslide that occurred at Jhyaplekhola of Dhunibesi municipality-9 in Dhading.

A rescue team mobilized since Sunday morning collected the bodies of 17 males and four females. So far, 35 bodies have been retrieved at the incident site.

Rescue teams had found 14 bodies till Saturday night, according to the District Police Office, Dhading's police inspector and information officer Prahlad Silwal.

A bus (Na 4 Kha 2270) and a microbus (Jumbo Hiace) with the registration number Ba 2 Kha 1345 were found under the landslide debris on Sunday.

On Saturday, a microbus (Lu 1 Jha 4578) was found in the landslide-hit area. The number of vehicle(s) buried by the landslide may go up, police said.

The bodies have been sent to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) for post-mortem examinations, according to Silwal. 

The Naubise-Nagdhunga area along the Tribhuvan Highway has remained disrupted by landslides since Friday evening.

(RSS)