Only 39 people died in Ilam and 70 families were displaced due to the flood.
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Ilam municipality-6, the mourning started even before the bodies of 3 people were taken to the Gumbadanda near Chureghanti for mass burial.
When the bodies of three people who lost their lives when the house of Viraj Pakhrin of Ghos village was destroyed by a landslide, there was an uproar among the locals.
After preparing a pyre with sticks, the body was placed. According to Buddhist rituals, after lighting the fire by giving candles, the locals started giving clay. 76-year-old Man Bahadur Limbu was also in Malami's group. After the crowd left, he also gave clay to the members of the Pakhrin family, the fire started to burn. Man Bahadur's eyes teared up while watching the
. "The neighbor left, they went together to the same place, who cares after tomorrow?" He was expressing his pain. When Man Bahadur was saying this, the people present were more emotional.
The mass cremation of 5 people who lost their lives due to the landslide that fell from the top of Raju Chhetri's house of Suryodaya-1 in Ilam was also performed on Monday. They were cremated after post-mortem at Fikkal Hospital in Ilam and taken to Manevnjang Ghat. "Many relatives were given dagbatti, time took away those who were younger than themselves, older ones as well. This is the first time a natural phenomenon has happened in our family. In the news, it was heard that mass funerals were held for the accident victims, today we had to do it ourselves," said Devi Chhetri, brother of the deceased Manmaya Chhetri.
Most of the 39 people who lost their lives in the Ilam landslide were cremated on Monday. 5 from Manebhanjyang, 3 from Ghosh and 7 from Deumai, 3 people were buried in one place and 4 people were buried in 3 places. Similarly, mass funerals of most of the dead in Sandakpur and Mangsebung were story-broken. Post-mortems were not conducted on those who died due to landslides except Ilam and Suryodaya municipalities. Chief District Officer of Ilam, Sunita Nepal, said that due to the landslides in remote settlements and the difficulty of the road to the hospital for post-mortem, in coordination with the Ministry of Home Affairs, the necessary documents and bonds were prepared and the funeral was done at the place of the incident.
"Hospital and administration have been given permission to carry out the funeral without post-mortem by erecting the necessary documents for records at the scene," said Nepal.
The villages of Mangsebung, Mai and Sandakpur Rural Municipality along with Ilam, Suryodaya and Deumai Municipalities, which have suffered the most human losses, are currently in mourning. "This is the first time that a disaster has occurred with such a loss of human wealth, the entire district is in mourning, and at the same time, the responsibility of reconstruction has also been created," said Suryodaya Municipality Mayor Ran Bahadur Rai. The Ilam administration has released the data that 37 people have died due to the flood and 2 are missing and 70 families have been displaced in Ilam.
