21 killed, 24 missing due to post-monsoon rains in Nepal
According to local administration records, at least 21 people have lost their lives in the last 24 hours due to landslides and floods caused by the post-monsoon rains in Nepal, while about two dozen people are yet to be traced. Is. Floods and landslides earlier this week have displaced hundreds and damaged crops and property worth lakhs. The most casualties and loss of property have been recorded in the far-western districts as well as in the southern plains of the Himalayan nation.
The local police station told ANI over phone that twenty-four people are still missing due to landslides in residential areas in the western district of Bajhang. Police further informed that the search operation is on, however, extreme weather conditions are hampering the efforts.
Three people have died in Baitadi district alone, while 60 people are yet to be airlifted to the landslide-hit village of the district.
“Around 60 people are waiting for rescue in Dhungad village of Sigas village council, we could not rescue them on Tuesday. The Nepal Army helicopter could not carry out the rescue operation and the entire village, which is surrounded by water from all sides.” Mohan Adhikari, Chief District Officer, Baitadi said, it has now turned into an island.
Similarly, according to police officials, two people have lost their lives in Salyan district.
Another district, Doti, recorded nine deaths on Tuesday, while Nepal’s adjoining far-western districts reported flooding, damaging major highways, leaving hundreds stranded.
One death and one injured were also reported in a landslide incident on Tuesday in Kalikot, the remotest district of Nepal’s Karnali province. Similarly, two deaths were recorded in Dadeldhura too.
Dhangarhi Senior Superintendent of Police Bikram Chand said, “Due to the landslide caused by incessant rains, a 32-year-old man died as his house collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday.”
According to officials in western Nepal, no casualties were reported till Wednesday morning, but hundreds of passengers were stranded due to landslides and road blockades.
In central Nepal, one person lost his life after a river was washed away in Sindhuli, the least-affected region, while other districts of Chitwan, Makwanpur were inundated due to heavy rains.
Federal Police Division, Dharan superintendent Bhim Dahal said two children died in Sunsari’s Dharan after a house collapsed following incessant rain.
Meteorologists have attributed the change in the weather patterns of the Himalayan nation to the simultaneous activation of two weather systems.
Nepal has recently observed the combined effects of low pressure systems operating in the Bay of Bengal and Central India (now moving north) and the Western Wind System.
Western Nepal, especially the Far West Province, has been badly affected by these weather systems.
Although a detailed assessment of the damage and damage is yet to be done, 12 districts are reported to be affected by the natural calamity. The Ministry of Home Affairs has mobilized Nepal Army, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force for relief and rescue operations in essential areas.
The Meteorological Forecasting Department (MFD) has predicted rain in different parts of the country.
According to the weather bulletin issued by the division on Wednesday morning, the weather will be partly to moderately cloudy with heavy rain at one or two places over State 1, 2, Bagmati Pradesh and Gandki Pradesh and light to moderate rain at Karnali and . Far West of the country.
(with inputs from ANI)
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