The victims were from the village of Khim in Kalikot district in the mid-western region of the country, some 250 miles west of the capital Kathmandu.
In the past six months, the death toll in the village has reached 76 due to diarrhea. The village is a three-day walk away from Manma, the district headquarters.
There were already 52 dead mostly children below 8-years-old, according to authorities.
According to reports, the only sub-health post of the village has no medicines except for Cetamol, while months have gone by without any health care workers.
Reports also said that the reason behind the epidemic was the lack of education and that the water source was contaminated.
