Eight killed as flood collapses Nepal-China bridge
Authorities were killed after washing the “Bridge of Friendship”, which connects China and Nepal after the Bhote Koshi River was flooded.
In the last 24 hours, there was no heavy rainfall in the area of the river, but air estimated experts said that Selin said, a glacier lake overflowing in Tibet, where heavy rain fell.
In a statement to Nepal Police Spokesman Binod Ghimire Reuters, the police saved eight unidentified bodies so far.
He said 57 people were rescued. Nepal Army spokesman Raja Ram Basnet, search and rescue operations continued, he said.
China’s official Xinhua News Agency Nepal was missing at least 20 people, 11 people were not calculated on the Chinese side of the mountainous border region.
Authorities, Nepal and China trade between the destruction of the bridge, he said.
The loss in Nepal included six Chinese workers and three police personnel.
Arjun Paudel, the senior administrative official of the Rasuwa region, was working on the Inner Container Depot, built with the help of China, about 80 km north of Capital Kathmandu of lost Chinese citizens.
“The river also swept some containers with the goods imported from China … (Property) There is a great loss and we collect details.”
In recent years, China has been increasing its investment in Nepal in areas, including roads, power plants and hospitals.
The Asian giant has been beaten by heavy rain and flash floods in the last few days, which left a trail of destruction, and this week is prepared for a tropical storm.
Nepal’s weather forecast department said he was working with Sentinel Asia, an international initiative to support disaster management in the Asia -Pacific region.
The National Disaster Management Administration on Tuesday, including 38 children in Pakistan, at least 79 people, landslides and home collapses, including floods and died of rain.
Authorized, Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’nın northern and northwest states of flash floods and glacial lake explosions released new warnings.
