A landslide hit Goulichaur village, about 175 miles west of Katmandu, killing 21 people, the chief government administrator in Baglung district, Surya Bhandari, told The Associated Press.

Separately, another landslide killed five people and buried parts of a village in Nepal's mountainous west, officials said.

The landslide covered three houses in Bratola village early in the morning while the victims were sleeping, said Bajura district's chief government official, Hum Prasad Adhikari. Bratola is about 310 miles northwest of Katmandu.

Scores of people are killed in the Himalayan nation each year during the rainy season, often by landslides in mountainous areas or flooding in the southern plains.