Saturday, September 16, 2006

School buried in landslide

Landslide triggered by incessant rainfall since Friday has completely buried the Devitar Lower Secondary School where around 400 Chepang and Tamang children study, according to a schoolteacher Raj Kumar Syangtan.

Guardians are worried about their children’s education after the school constructed last year with an investment of Rs 2 lakh has been buried.

The villagers’ dream of running a secondary school in the Chepang neighbourhood will remain a dream, Syangtan said.

Classes in other schools of rural areas of Makwanpur, which were closed due to rains, resumed today.

Meanwhile, 33-year-old Raju Sapkota, a native of Aptari, Dhading, was killed in a landslide at Benighat village development committee ward number 9, Dhading today, police said.

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