Kathmandu (dpa)- Six people from the same family were killed in Nepal's mid-western mountains Monday when their house was swept away by a mudslide, police said.
Three women and three children were among those killed in the landslide, triggered by heavy rainfall in Kaski district.
Another family member was rescued by the Nepalese army.
Incessant rainfall has also inundated hundreds of hectares of rice fields in Mohhatari district, in southern Nepal, as the Ratu River burst it banks due to days of incessant rainfall.
Every year, hundreds of people are killed and thousands displaced due to flooding and landslides caused by monsoon rain in the Himalayan nation.
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Author: Pratibha Tuladhar
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