At least 21 people, including several women and children, were killed on Friday by a landslide triggered by heavy rains in a village in western Nepal.

The landslide swept away six houses in the Gwalichour village in Baglung district, about 250 km west of Kathmandu.

All victims were swept away by the landslide while they were sleeping.

Hundreds of people are killed in mountainous Nepal every year in floods and landslides, which are common during the annual monsoon rains from June to September..

cnn.com