RUKUM PASCHIM, April 12: Police have destroyed illegal opium poppy farming across 172 ropanis (1 ropani is equivalent to 508.74 square meters) of land in different parts of Rukum Paschim.
RUKUM (WEST), Nov 6: Three people from outside the Rukum (West) district were killed in the earthquake. On Friday night, an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hit the district, with Jajarkot's Ramidanda as its epicenter. Three people from outside Rukum West died in Aathbiskot Municipality. All of them were laborers.
At least 27 people have lost their lives in the Aathbiskot and Sani Bheri rural municipalities in a 6.4 Richter scale earthquake, that struckRamidanda of Jajarkot at 11:47 PM on Friday. Meanwhile, 37 people have lost their lives in Jajarkot district.