Heavy rains kill at least 47 in Nepal, block roads
By Gopal Sharma
Authorities said in a statement on Sunday, Kathmandu (Reuters) -Hiravik triggered landslides and flashes, washed bridges and killed at least 47 people in Nepal since Friday.
Kalidas Dhauboji, the spokesman of the armed police force, said that thirty -five people were killed in separate landslides in the Ilam region in the East.
The authority added that nine people were missing after washing by the floods and three people were killed in Lightning strikes elsewhere in Nepal.
Shanti Mahat, a spokesman for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority in Nepal, said, “Recovery efforts for missing people are continuing,” he said.
According to local media reports, at least seven seven people were killed in front of the border in the East Indian Hill region of Darjeeling in Western Bengal because of the heavy rainfall.
A Darjeeling Region Police Official Abhishek Roy, according to an article from the Indian news agency on the social media platform X, “Seven dead bodies have already been rescued from the wreckage. We have more information about two people. We have more information about two people. We are working to save their bodies.” He said.
Authorities, several motorways were blocked by landslides and hundreds of passengers were washed with floods washed with floods, he said.
“Internal flights are greatly broken, but international flights are normally running,” Rinji Sherpa, the spokesperson of Nepal’s largest international network gateway, said.
A regional official said that in the Southeast Nepal, in the Eastern India, Bihar, the Koshi River, which causes deadly floods almost every year, flows over the danger level.
Sunsari Region Regional Governor Dharmendra Kumar Mishra said that the entire 56 Sluice gate of the Koshi Dam was opened to evacuate the water compared to about 10 to 12 during a normal situation and that the authorities prohibited the traffic on the bridge.
In Kathmandu, the people of Tepe left a few river roads inundated and left many houses under water and cut the capital decorated with the temple by road from the rest of the country.
The monsoon is mostly died of landslides and flash floods, which are mostly common in the Mountainous Nepal, which normally began in mid -June and continued in mid -September.
Air officials said that the rains would pollute their country until Monday and that the authorities took “maximum maintenance and measures için to help people affected by the disaster.
(Reporting by Gopal Sharma in Kathmandu; Additional reporting in Mumbai by Jayshree P Upadhyay; Lincoln Feast and Jamie Freed)
