A person died and another was injured when a landslide triggered by incessant rainfall buried a house at Pandhero in Dihikopatan of Pokhara Metropolitan City-6 on Monday.
According to DSP Sundar Tiwari of the District Police Office, Kaski, the deceased has been identified as Santosh Sunar (26) of Bhurjungkhola, Machhapuchhare Rural Municipality-1, Kaski. He had been living in the house as a tenant.
Critically injured in the incident, he was rushed to the Western Regional Hospital but doctors pronounced him dead in arrival, Tiwari said.
Sunar’s sister Sunita (27) was injured in the incident.
She has been receiving treatment at the Gandaki Medical College, police said.
Sunita’s 10-year-old daughter Simran Sunar was unhurt in the incident.
