Thursday, August 20, 2015

2 die as quake-damaged houses collapse

Posted by Anup Baral August 20, 2015 :



Three persons died and three others were injured when earthquake -damaged houses collapsed in Sindhupalchok and Nuwakot districts on Wednesday. Both the incidents happened while locals were clearing the debris from the houses destroyed by the Great Earthquake on April 25 and its aftershocks. Dambar Bahadur Neupane and Ganesh Bahadur Thapa were buried to death as a house collapsed at Kunchok-5 in Sindhupalchok, the district hit hardest by the April 25 earthquake . The incident occurred while the locals were pulling down the house. According to the locals, an aftershock of magnitude 4 also struck the area at a time when the house collapsed. Bal Bahadur Neupane of the same villages sustained serious injuries in the incident. He was taken to Dhulikhel in Kavre for treatment.

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