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Flood
toll rises, hundreds displaced, agricultural lands damaged
According to Himalayan News
Service, at least two persons were killed and nearly 1,000 families
displaced in the floods following incessant rainfall across the country
on Wednesday.
Two minors were swept away in Bara — Rajababu Patel (11) of
Uttarjhitaiya-2 by the raging Bangari River and Sabuan Khatun (4) of
Haraiya-6 by Katkhola in Khatun.
In Amaduwa of Sunsari, 10-year-old Puja Kumari Mandal fell into a stream
while cutting grass and is feared to have been swept away. The swollen
Sunsari River has displaced nearly 700 families in 10 VDCs, including
Narsigh, Jhokraha, Simariya and Harinagara. The flood-hit families were
rescued by Nepali Army, Nepal Police and APF personnel early this
morning.
Sunsari CDO Ram Prasad Thapaliya said the Red Cross had provided the
displaced families with food and tents. He assured them additional
relief.
Eighty houses in Musahari Tole of Loukahi VDC, 50 houses in Simariya VDC
and 69 houses in Itahari and Inaruwa municipalities have also been
inundated. In Inaruwa, District Administration Office, District
Veterinary Office and Land Survey Office have been inundated.
According to the control room of the Koshi Barrage, water-flow in the
Saptakoshi River was measured 2,51,590 cusec this afternoon, the
highest this year. Indian technicians have brought a machine for rapid
excavation of sand from the river to reduce threat to the barrage.
Swollen Singhiya Khola in Morang has swept away all the houses of
landless persons built on the river banks. Hundreds of houses in
Biratnagar have been inundated. The displaced families are sheltering
in Gayatri School and Saraswoti temple in Biratnagar.
In Jhapa, most of the rural roads have been obstructed due to
inundation. A bridge on the Geuriya River on the Lakhanpur section of
the East-West Highway has collapsed. Raging Ratu River in Mahottari has
blocked the Jaleshwor-Bardibas section of the road. The flood has also
obstructed the trans-border transportation in Bhittamod. In Kanchanpur,
Kisan Khatri (26) of Bhujela in Bhimdutta municipality, who had gone to
Mahakali to collect firewood, has been missing.
Gautadi Khola has displaced 26 families and inundated more than 400
houses in the municipality. The Doda River has inundated more five VDCs
in the district. According to local administration, 150 families have
been displaced.
Three bodies among 10, who
had gone missing after floods triggered by incessant rainfall at the
Karamgada in Dolpa district, have been recovered on Thursday. Seven
others are still unaccounted for.
Ten member of local Lal
Bahadur Rokaya, of Lahan VDC-5, had gone missing after a flood swept
them away on Tuesday.
Floods triggered by
incessant rainfall for the last four days in Babai and other rivers
have swept away over 50 bigahs of agricultural land in Dang district.
A farmer of Urahari VDC, Ram
Tharu, said flood has swept away five bigahs of paddy field at Panari
area of the VDC.
Likewise, the flood has
swept away 20 bigahs of land in Dharna, Dhikpur, Duruwa and Phulbari
VDCs.
(Posted
on 22nd July, 2010)
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Landslide sweeps away
five houses, displaces 20 families in Bajura
Five houses have been buried
and 20 families have been displaced due to landslides following the
incessant rainfall in Bajura on Wednesday.
Landslide at Jugada-8 of
Rajali has buried the house of one Nandu Lohar whereas five houses,
including that of Surje Ukhada, have been swept away in the landslide
at Kuldevmandau-1 of Kavra.
14 families from Rajali and
five from Kavra have fled from their houses under the landslide risk
towards safety.
The displaced families from
Rajali have been kept in tents provided by the Red Cross whereas the
ones from Kavra have been taking shelter in the building of Khanepani
Corporation, Chief District Officer Yogendra Prasad Pandey informed.
(Posted
on 21st July, 2010)
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Landslide
sweeps away ten of a family in Dolpa
Landslide and flood
triggered by incessant rainfall has swept away an entire village in
Laha VDC of Dolpa on Tuesday. Ten persons of a single family have also
been swept away in the landslide.
Lal Bahadur Rokaya and nine others from his family have been missing
since Karamgad river, a tributary of Bheri, swept away his house while
other villagers managed to run away.
Lal Bahadur´s father Som,
mother Subidhara, wife Manikala, two sons, nephew Kundare, two
daughters and a son-in-law, who had come for Shrawan Sankranti festival
have been swept away by the river.
The flood also swept away a
police post while the policemen ran away to safety. Around 60 domestic
animals were also swept away.
Teams of Nepal Army and
Nepal Police have reached the incident site and they along with locals
have been engaged in rescue and relief operation. Nepal Army personnel
deployed for a road construction in Rukum have also been mobilized for
the rescue operation.
(Posted
on 21st July, 2010)
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Monsoon
menace: Scores homeless
Himalayan News Service
ITAHARI/DHANGADHI:
Continuous downpour in the last few days has triggered floods in the
eastern and western regions of the country rendering a horde of locals homeless
and forcing hundred others to relocate themselves to safer places.
Swollen Sunsari River swept
away 15 houses in a Dalit settlement at Narasingh VDC in Sunsari
district and inundated about 100 houses in Narasingh and Basantapur
VDCs. Houses belonging to Musahar, Khatwe and Muslim communities in
Narasingh
VDC were swept away as
floodwaters gushed into the settlement. The displaced families have
been taking shelter in Kali Temple.
As many as 60 houses in Wards
No 4, 5 and 6 and 50 houses in Ward No 7 of Basantapur VDC have been
submerged.
Nine families in Chulachuli,
Danawari and Samalbung of Ilam were also displaced today after floods
swept away their houses. According to police, four families each from
Chulachuli-1 and Chulachuli-3 and one family from Samalbung-4 were
forced to leave their homes to escape flood.
Landslides at Jyamdwar in
Danawari have obstructed vehicular movement along the
Khudunawari-Danawari road section. About a dozen rural road networks
too have been damaged. Transportation services have come to a complete
halt along the Gaighat-Beltar-Devghat, Beltar-Thoksila and
Hadiya-Fattepur road sections. Transportation service has been
obstructed in Jhapa after a bridge in Lakhanpur along the East-West
Lokmarga collapsed.
In the west too flooding has
wreaked havoc. Several districts in the far-western region have been
deluged. As many as 40 families have been displaced in Kailali alone.
Raging Kandra River has
displaced 20 families in Ramshikhar VDC. According to Sitaram Joshi,
deputy chairman of district Red Cross, 150 houses have been inundated
in the area.
Another 10 families have
been rendered homeless in Pahalmanpur VDC. Kamikate River displaced 19
families in Bhimdatta Municipality of Kanchanpur district.
Life in Bajhang district has
been adversely affected with rain pounding the region incessantly for
the last few days. Telephone services have been disrupted, as solar
panels have failed to generate enough energy.
Five airports waterlogged
Biratnagar: In the wake of
incessant downpour, five of the 13 airports in the eastern region have
halted services, as runways have been inundated. Three airports in
Khotang — Lamidanda, Thamk-akharka and Manamaya Rai — and one each in
Taplejung and Rajbiraj have been submerged resulting in cancellation of
flights, leaving passengers in the lurch. Station manager at Lamidanda
airport, Ramesh Shrestha, said there were some patients among the
passengers waiting for the flights to resume. Nepal Airlines has four
flights a week while Tara Air flies to Khotang daily.
(Posted
on 21st July, 2010)
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Floods
displace 60 families
More than 60 families in
Sunsari and Jhapa were displaced by flood on Saturday night. Thirty-two
huts at Falkland Tappu of Dharan-17 were swept away after floodwater
from Thakuri River entered the settlement.
The displaced families are sheltering in the houses of their relatives.
Also, 28 households at Lakhanpur and Dangibari of Jhapa were inundated.
Police rescued the flood-hit families and took them to safety.
Meanwhile, a bridge over Tindhwange stream at Dharan-8 along Koshi
Highway is at risk after the torrent swept away its spurs.
(Posted
on 14th July, 2010)
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Sunsari
embankment on Koshi target
Koshi River has begun
breaching an embankment at Pulthegauda of Sunsari district, putting
human settlements nearby at flood risk.
Rising water in the river has devoured a large section of the eastern embankment,
said officials of Water Induced Disaster Control Office in Biratnagar.
Efforts to control the swollen river have failed.
Engineer Mohan Bhattarai said the embankment may burst anytime and
devastation would be unprecedented if immediate steps are not taken.
Continious rainfall also has affected repair work at the embankment.
Experts had recommended repair and maintenance of the Pulthegauda
section of the eastern embankment before the monsoon, but things failed
to take off due to lack of budget.
Sunday afternoon’s reading showed that the water flow rate in the Koshi
Barrage was 132,000 cu.sec. A week earlier, the measurement had showed
this year’s highest at 175,000 cu.sec.
Chief District Officer of Sunsari Ram Prasad Thapaliya said a team led
by his deputy was at Pulthegauda to take stock of the situation.
(Posted
on 21st July, 2010)
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