The family members of Kaman Singh Tamang, Ram Bahadur Tamang, Aite Tamang, Bir Bahadur Tamang, Mohan Singh Tamang, Ram Bahadur Sunar and Binda Adhikari have been taking shelter in their neighbours’ houses after the landslide put their houses at the risk of collapse.

Seven out of 16 houses in the village have developed cracks in the wall due to the mudslide.

Meanwhile, Nepal Red Cross Society, Nuwakot branch, distributed relief to five families today, according to president of the branch Ganesh Nepal.

Muttiah Muralitharan achieved the 800-wicket landmark with his last ball in Test cricket as Sri Lanka stepped closer to beating India on Thursday.

The off-spinner, 38, had last man Pragyan Ojha caught at slip by Mahela Jayawardene to terminate India’s second innings after lunch on the final day of the first Test at the Galle International Stadium.

India, who were made to follow on 244 runs behind, were bowled out for 338 in their second knock, setting Sri Lanka a modest target of 95 runs in the opening match of the three-Test series.

The hosts raced to 63 for no loss by tea with openers Tharanga Paranavitana on 21 and Tillakaratne Dilshan on 37.

Muralitharan, who has taken more Test and one-day (515) wickets than any bowler in history, will retire from Test cricket after the match but remains open to playing limited-overs games.

He claimed 5-63 in the first innings of his final appearance and 3-128 in the second.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse flew in from the capital, Colombo, to briefly watch the match and presented Muralitharan with a memento during the lunch break.

Some 15,000 fans, including Muralitharan’s parents, his Indian wife, Madhimalar, and four-year old son, Naren, faced anxious moments before the landmark was achieved.

The spinner needed 23 overs to claim the last scalp following a doughty rearguard action by India, whose last three wickets added 141 runs after being 197-7 at one stage.

Venkatsai Laxman led the fightback with a defiant 69, adding 49 for the eighth wicket with debutant Abhimanyu Mithun and 68 for the ninth with Ishant Sharma.

India had added five runs to their overnight total of 181-5 when fast bowler Lasith Malinga bowled skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni with a toe-crushing yorker to claim his fourth wicket in the innings.

Muralitharan, who dismissed Yuvraj Singh off the last ball on Wednesday, trapped Harbhajan Singh leg-before in the day’s fourth over to move to 799 wickets.

Mithun helped himself to five boundaries in his 25 when he became Malinga’s fifth victim in the innings to make India 246-8.

Laxman was run out by a direct throw from Angelo Mathews, but Sharma hung on for 106 deliveries to hit a career-best 31 not out.

Of late, an elephant that came out of the park demolished two houses belonging to Shamsher Lama in Ward No 7 and Man Bahadur Praja in Ward No 6, according to a local teacher Ram Prasad Bhandari.

Locals have been panicked after the tuskers started entering into the human settlements almost daily. Bhandari said the elephants enter into the settlements mostly in the evening.

Despite having electronic fence, locals said, elephants and rhinos have not stopped coming out of the park and terrifying the villagers.