The deceased has been identified as Rambhagat Ram, 15, of Saptari district. Two other injured were Shivanandan Ram, 25, and Devilam Mandal, 60, of Saptari. [break]
The Metropolitan Police Circle, Maharajgung said that persistent downpour triggered the landslide. The incident happened at 6:15 am in the morning. "We reached on the spot immediately and rescued the victims," said Jeevan Shrestha, deputy superintendent of police (DSP) of the circle. He said that the victims were rushed to TUTH for treatment. Doctors at the hospital pronounced Ram as dead on arrival.
He said that Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and Nepal Army personnel were deployed to for carrying out the rescue. A bulldozer was also used to clear the debris.
The victims were tenant in the house that collapsed. A local said that one of the injured had arrived in the capital only a day ago to go to the Gulf on foreign employment. The owner did not live in the house. "The house owner had asked them to vacate the room as it was too risky to live in the house," Sukumaya Tamang, who lives in the settlement, said. She said that the house in a dilapidated state.
She said that over 250 houses in the settlement are also at the risk of disasters like landslide, as the settlement is build on a heap of mud thrown at the time of TUTH construction, some 32 years ago. She said that the settlement is prone to landslides. "We spend sleepless nights during monsoon fearing landslides," she added.
She said that her daughter and two other families have been compelled to leave their houses as the landslide occurred very close to their homes. "We have been living here for the last 32 years," said Yanji Sherpa. She said that she and her five-member family have nowhere to go. "We are homeless now. We have kept our things at a neighbors´ home," said Sherpa. She said that her family had spent all the savings to build the house which is now at the risk of collapse.
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