The two-year-old boy and his sister, who is about four, were at home when a landslide rolled down 250 meters (820 feet) and buried the house late Thursday in the village of Surumkhum in Taplejung district, 360 kilometers (225 miles) east of the capital Kathmandu, a home ministry official said.

When the debris was cleared at the end of Friday, rescuers found the body of their father Surya Shretha, their mother Jamuna Shretha, their three siblings along with their sister-in-law and nephew.

The two children were flown by an army helicopter Saturday to the eastern city of Tharan where they are in stable condition at the Indian-funded B.P. Koirala Memorial Hospital, doctors said.

Nepal suffers heavy landslides each summer as the monsoon downpour combines with the downflow from the Himalayas, which caused major floods downstream in India and Bangladesh.

At least 147 people have died in landslides in Nepal since mid-June, according to home ministry figures.

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