A landslide and flooding have killed workers about 100 kilometers west of the area in Nepal devastated by last month's massive floods.
A landslide struck the Super Seti hydropower plant construction site in the Kaski district of Nepal's central Gandaki province at around 11 a.m. the previous day, local media including The Kathmandu Post reported on the 6th.
Two Nepali site workers in their 20s were injured in the landslide and taken to a hospital, where they died. Another worker in his 30s suffered a knee injury but was in stable condition.
The workers who died had been excavating to build an access road to the power plant when the landslide came down from above, according to the reports.
Nepal has been hit by a series of floods of varying scale. More than a week has passed since the Bhote Koshi River, in the mountainous border area between Nepal and Tibet, flooded on the 26th of last month and caused severe damage in the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts of Bagmati province, but the effects are still being felt.
The Super Seti hydropower plant, with a capacity of about 22 megawatts, sits roughly 100 kilometers west of the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts in north-central Bagmati province, the area hit by the major flooding on the 26th of last month. Flooding also occurred the same day on the Namlung River, a tributary of the Trishuli River in the Gorkha district of Gandaki province, damaging homes and a bridge. CNN, compiling damage reports from Nepal and China, found that at least 1,362 people have died in the floods and more than 5,000 remain missing.
