Six children swept away by flood in Nawalparasi
Kantipur Report
NAWALPARASI, July 29 - Six children of a family died Sunday morning after they were swept away by the floods in Nawalparasi district.
They were sleeping when an overflowing Ram-khanda River battered the house belonging to Asmita Gupta at around 2 am.
However, the others managed to swim to safety.
Similarly, Panu Dev Sahani, 35, died when her house at Bagachauda village in Dhanusha district collapsed following floods in Pahadi River Saturday night.
Fifty families in the village have been displaced.
At least 17 more people had died on Saturday as floods and landslides continue to wreak havoc across the country.
In Saptari district, 35 year old Dinesh Shah of Goganpur died after lightening struck him Saturday night.
Police said, he was struck by the lightening while returning home from the field.
Similarly, at least a dozen people have died of gastroenteritis in Salyan district over the last three days.
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