A massive landslide with mudflow near Til village in Namkha Rural Municipality-6, Humla, has damaged a 15-kilowatt hydropower plant, including its building, machinery, and canal.
The landslide also swept away an irrigation canal that supplied water to around 400 ropanis of farmland, as well as the village’s drinking water system.
Additionally, five wooden bridges over the Tilchung River were washed away, and parts of the settlement were directly affected by the landslide.
The roof of Sonam Sangmu Lama’s house was punctured by falling debris, while Che Buti Lama’s house sustained cracks. The roof of a nearby public rest house (dharamshala) also collapsed.
The landslide, which began around 11 pm on May 14, has placed several homes at high risk. In response, security forces have relocated 32 people—21 women, 9 men, and 2 children—to an open field, where they are currently living under tarpaulin shelters, according to DSP Shailendra Thapa, deputy spokesperson of the Armed Police Force.
Of the 50 households in the village, 18 were currently inhabited at the time of the disaster.
A team of 13 security personnel—seven from the Armed Police Force’s BOP Hills unit led by Senior Constable Lok Bahadur Budha, and six from the local police office under a police constable’s command—has been deployed to the affected area.
Paljor Lama, the ward chair of Namkha-6, said the exact cause of the mud-laden landslide has not yet been determined.
