NAWALPUR: Five people have been killed in a landslide at the Nawalpur section of the Kaligandaki corridor on Wednesday evening.
The deceased were laborers working on the Nawalparasi Bulingtar rural municipality section of the Kaligandaki corridor.
The workers died after a dry slide buried them as they were working on a gabion wall on the road side, according to Chief of District Police Office, Nawalpur Prakash Malla.
The deceased have been identified as Chet Bahadur Aslami Magar, Gopal Garanja, 20, Tara Bahadur Lungeli, 28-year-old Tul Bahadur Saru and 42-year-old Sun Bahadur Pulami.
Two workers — Kewal Singh Lungeli and Krishna Lungeli — were injured in the incident.
They are undergoing treatment in Bharatpur, police said.
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