By Xinhua
Kathmandu : At least 24 people were killed and many injured in landslides in Nepal’s two western districts Thursday night and Friday morning, local media reported.
As many as 10 people were killed in a landslide in Bajura district Friday morning, nepalnews.com reported.
All those killed in the calamity were labourers working for a road construction project in the area, some 240 km west of Kathmandu.
The labourers, sleeping in their tents, were buried under the landslide that hit at around 3 a.m. local time (0915 GMT) Friday morning, according to the website.
Thursday night, 14 people were killed and 17 injured after 16 houses were buried under landslide in Gwalichour village in Baglung district, some 180 km west of Kathmandu, police said.
Three others have gone missing. Over a dozen people were wounded in the landslide. A police team has been mobilized in the area for rescue work.