Over 16,000 families displaced by floods; death toll hits 72

Over 16,000 families displaced by floods; death toll hits 72

Nearly 80,000 people of 16,000 families have been displaced due to floods and landslides in different parts of the country.

According to the Home Ministry’s Central Natural Disaster Rescue and Relief Coordination Centre, altogether 72 people have died in floods and landslides. Officials said the government had speeded up the rescue and relief efforts in the flood-hit areas in Terai districts with the help of security agencies and other organisations.

Four Nepal Army helicopters and one each helicopter from the UNMIN and Simrik Air are being mobilised for distribution of relief materials in flood-hit areas in Terai.

Officials also informed that the relief amount for the families of the victims of natural calamities had been increased to Rs 25,000 each from the earlier Rs 15,000.

At least nine flood-related deaths were reported Sunday alone. Reports said four persons died in Siraha, two each in Mahottari and Bara while the body of a child missing in floods in Rautahat was recovered today.

Additionally, there were unconfirmed reports of five children of a same family in Nawalparasi being swept away in floods. nepalnews.com
sd/mk Jul 29 07

Death toll from deadly deluge 40

Himalayan News Service
Rautahat, July 29:

The death toll due to floods and landslides triggered by incessant rains reached 40 today, with thousands of houses remaining waterlogged in most districts of the country’s Tarai region.
In Jhapa district, 30-year-old Anupa Magar of Rajgarh-6 was swept away by the Bhutni Khola today, said the area police office.
In Mahottari district, 54-year-old Banarasi Chaudhari of Badiya’s Banchauri-4 died in a house collapse last evening, said the district police office.
Rautahat’s Sapgadha-10 resident Faizul haque’s six-year-old daughter Anjuman Khatun drowned last night in Bakaiya River near her house. Her body was recovered today, said the area police office.
A pregnant Shakuntala Devi, 30, of Rampur Khap-4, also died last night when she could not get medical treatment on time, said her husband Ram Kishore Kushwaha. In Bara, Pritam Kumari, the two-year-old daughter of Moti Mahara of Prasauna-9, drowned in a stream last night when water from the flooded Teear khola swamped the stream, said a local Jan Bahadur Shah.
Thousands of families have been displaced due to the floods in Morang, Jhapa, Sunsari, Saptari, Sarlahi, Siraha, Dhanusha, Mahottari, Rautahat, Bara, Parsa, Nawalparasi, Kapilvastu, Banke, Bardiya, Kailali, Rupandehi, Udaypur and other districts. In Mahottari, Ram Sakhi Paswan of Pipra VDC died today when his house collapsed.
Kapil Dev Lal Karna of Suda VDC and a 15-day-old infant of Jaleshwor died of pneumonia caused by flood waters today, police said.