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MYAGDI
Amamaya Garbuja of Raghuganga rural municipality-1, Begkhola sustained injuries after a landslide hit while she was heading to Dana of Myagdi from Ghasa of Mustang on Sunday.
Her left hand was fractured and the landslide carried her 10 metres below to the bank of the Kaligandaki River. Army personnel, police and locals rescued her from the debris and took her to the Beni Hospital for further treatment.
In yet another incident, a landslide occurred at Annapurna rural municipality-2, Nagdhunga on 21 July killing Jhalak Pun, 32, of ward 3 of the same rural municipality. He died on the spot after being buried in the landslide while heading to home to Kavre from Beni.
Likewise, Gyan Bahadur Pun of Mangala rural municipality-5 died after he fell into the Kaligandaki River from a cliff at Annapurna rural municipality-3 on 14 July. His dead body was found the following day in the river.
In the past one month, two people have lost their lives and others sustained injuries in incidents of landslide along the Beni-Jomsom road section. Travel along the road stretch has become precarious due to recurring incidents of landslides. The roads are quite congested and so accidents are frequent, said locals.
Travellers have to make risky crossings of landslides in several places along the Beni-Jomsom road which has been obstructed since 10 July.
Jeet Bahadur Purja, a local of Dana, said complications in changing vehicles on the road section and precarious landslide debris along the way have made travel vey unsafe and unreliable. The 76-km Beni-Jomsom road section has been disrupted due to landslides which has made life tougher here for locals, he said.
