Toll Rises to 10 over 150 still missing i sindhupalchok landslide

Sindhupalchok landslide

 Rescuers have pulled out two more bodies from the site of the massive landslide that blocked sunkoshi River at mankha VDC in sindhupalchok on Saturday taking the death toll to 10 with around 155 feared missing . the home ministry said on Sunday,With one more sluice created on the landslide dam in addition to the two formed on Saturday the risk of upstream and downstream flooding has been redced but not compltely averted.said Nepal Army spokesperson jagadish chandra pokharel.on Saturday an NA team had launched two controlled explosions on the clogged river with three channels of drainage obstruvted water is now being drained at the rate of three inches per hour said ganesh kc spokesperson for the Nepali police. But with the lake outburst still a possibility thousands of trsidents along the river in districts such as kaver Sindhupalchok ramechhap sindhuli and saptari continued to flee to higher grounds for shelter on Sunday , police have also started patrolling affected villages downstream including khurkot people from returning to their houses to retrieve their belongings phe land and the rocks are still sliding. We are worried about the outburst. It will incite another disaster said 76 year old markar dhwoj khatri a resident of Teknapur VDC that borders mankha in mankha teknapur Ramche and Dhuskun are the most affected by the landslide. Grologist and disaster expert ranjan kumar dahal who accompanied home minister Bam Dve Gautam to the landslidre dammed lake onsunday said that if the conditions remained the same it would take another 3-4 days to drain the lake. If we manage the flow of water draining not too much and not too slowly there is not danger of flooding said Dahal. Dahal estimates the dam to be around 45 metre high and the lake 25 metre deep .Until the lake is completely drained and the debris from the landslide cleared araniko Highway will remain closed he said . Meanwhile simrik air has begun airlifting tourists trepped at Tatopani on Nepal Chaina border to dhulikhel in kaver. Around 400 tourists from India,Japan,countries were on their way back from Mansarovar in china. According to Biswas Adhikari of Mimicker air 300 of them have already been lifted to Dhulikhel and the rest will be rescued by Monday, the governments apathy towards the stranded tourists has deeply saddened tourists has deeply saddened them and people like us who are in this sector said Adhikari. Although the Government scrambles to search and rescue victims and to provide immediate relief to those at camps locals at sindhupalchok are disheartened bu its sloe pace .source by Kathmandu post