Whereabouts of four missing in Dolakha landslide unknown

Dolakha, Sept 29: The whereabouts of four people who went missing in a landslide at Bigu rural municipality-1 in Dolakha district on Saturday remain unknown.

Narendra Bahadur Pal and Shankar Chand of the Nepali Army, Garundal Battalion, and Krishna Prasad Chaudhary from Pratappur of Nawalparasi and Jayaram Tamang of Bigu rural municipality-1, Dolakha went missing after the landslide struck a two-storey building of the Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project.

Of the missing, Chaudhary,35, and Tamang,30 were contract-based employees of the project.

Chief District Administration Officer of Dolakha, Tubraj Pokharel, said a rescue team is yet to reach the incident site.

Two of the Nepali Army and two Project workers have been reportedly missing in the incident that occurred at 11:00 am on Saturday, he said.