Baglung, June 27 -- Baglung saw its first landslide of the year in Kathekhola Rural Municipality last week; the disaster buried several houses and claimed the life of a woman.

Since the monsoon rains have intensified in the past two weeks, the district has seen over a dozen landslides. On Thursday alone, six houses were buried by a landslide under the road leading to Shantipur by way of Sigana and Bareng villages.

In Dhullu Baskot Village of Bareng, two houses are in immediate danger of getting buried by a landslide as a road construction project is underway in the area. Lil Bahadur Khatri, whose house and land is at risk of being swept away, is taking shelter at his neighbour's house. Despite the rains, gravel work is ongoing at one se...