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MNA International Desk: The personnel from Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and Nepal Army along with local people continued on Sunday to search for missing people in a massive landslide that has killed at least 18 people in central Nepal. Eighteen bodies have been recovered at Jugal Rural Municipality in Sindhupalchowk district while 21 people are still missing, reports XInhua. The incident happened in the early morning on Friday as the falling hill damaged 37 houses in the Lidi village of nearly 170 houses. Among the 18 bodies, 11 were children, four were women and three were men, Superintendent of ...

MNA International Desk: A landslide triggered by heavy rain killed at least 24 people in China’s mountainous southwest province of Sichuan on Tuesday, reported news agency. Extreme weather this summer has triggered a series of landslides and floods across the country, leaving scores dead and tens of thousands displaced. The latest disaster hit a village in Puge county at around 6 am, news agency said, adding that four others were injured and one person remained missing. As of late Tuesday afternoon, authorities estimated that 71 houses and five kilometers of roads had been destroyed, the Sichuan government information office said ...

MNA National Desk: Twenty-six activists of ruling Awami League and its front organizations have been sued over attack on BNP Secretary General Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other BNP leaders in Chittagong. Former public prosecutor (PP) of Chittagong court Enamul Haq filed the case with a speedy tribunal here on Wednesday morning accusing 26 people, reported news agency. A S M Shahidullah Kaiser, chief judicial magistrate of the court, will hear the case later, said the former PP. Fakhrul and his motorcade came under the attack in Chittagong while the BNP leaders were on way to landslide affected areas in Rangamati ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Rescuers went from door to door searching for information on people who might be missing Wednesday after massive landslides crashed onto villages and killed at least 140 in the southeastern area. As many as 106 people died in Rangamati alone while 21 bodies were revered from Rangunia and Chandanaish and three from Bandarban and one from Khagracchari. With some roads collapsed and others blocked by mud, soldiers were erecting a portable bridge to reach the worst-hit district of Rangamati, where government shelters housed about half of the 4,500 people whose homes were swamped by mud and debris ...

MNA National Desk: More than 20 people were killed in separate landslides in different area of Rangamati and Bandarban districts on Tuesday. Identities of all deceased could not be known immediately. Around 13 bodies were recovered at Rangamati, six at Bandarban and four people were found dead at Chittagong after the mudslides. Moreover, a man was killed as tree fell on him at Kaptai upazila of Rangamati and a young man went on missing in the River Karnaphul. Power outage occurs in several areas of Rangamati. Fire fighters and members of Civil Defence and other law enforcers are conducting rescue ...

MNA International Desk: In the southwestern Colombia town of Mocoa a sudden surge of mud and water swept away homes, bridges, vehicles and trees, leaving piles of wrecked timber buried in thick mud. The toll has risen to 250 dead in a violent landslide in Colombia caused by the overflowing of three rivers swollen by torrential rain, the local Red Cross said Sunday. Hardest-hit was the southwestern town of Mocoa, in the Amazon rainforest basin, with the previously reported number of fatalities hitting 206. At least 202 people were wounded, more than 100 people missing, 300 families affected and 25 ...

MNA International Desk: At least 30 people were killed and dozens more hurt in a giant landslide at Ethiopia’s largest rubbish dump on the outskirts of the capital Addis Ababa. The tragedy on Saturday saw dozens of homes of squatters living in the dump leveled after a part of the largest pile of rubbish at the Koshe landfill collapsed, reported news agency. Construction materials, wooden sticks and plastic sheeting could be seen in the wreckage. According to local residents, some 50 houses with about seven people living in each of them were built on the trash. People had built the ...