Badigad Landslide: Body of 3-yr-old found, death toll hits 9

Published On: August 7, 2024 01:58 PM NPT By: Republica  | @RepublicaNepal


BAGLUNG, Aug 7: The body of 3-year-old Arush Thapa has been recovered from the landslide debris at Arupata, Badigad Rural Municipality-10 in Baglung. A team of security personnel deployed for the search operation to find the missing recovered the body.

With this, the death toll has reached nine in the Badigad landslide, with three people still missing.

Earlier, three people who were seriously injured in the landslide that buried their house at Arupata on Tuesday were rescued. Due to inclement weather, the injured could not be taken to a health facility immediately and were treated by health workers from the Nepali Army. They have now been taken to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital.

The other injured have been taken to the Primary Health Centre in Burtibang.

Nine people were killed and 10 others injured when a landslide buried the house of Jog Bahadur Budha on Tuesday morning.

 


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