Flood sweeps away power house of Upper Kalungkhola Hydropower Project
The Kalung rivulet of Jaimini Municipality-9, Paiyuthanthap swept away the dam and power house of the Upper Kalungkhola Hydropower Project.
Local Ganga Acharya said that the flooding this morning washed away the dam along with the power house of the project.
The flood also swept away the steel bridge that was constructed last year at the cost of Rs 3.5 million, Acharya informed.
The natural disaster caused damage to the transformer of the central power transmission line, disrupting power supply to a total of 130 households in Paiyuthanthap.
Two families of Khareyabot, Paiyuthanthap were displaced due to flood. Seven families are at risk of floods and landslides, Acharya informed.
Landslide obstructs Kaligandaki corridor
Vehicular movement along the Kaligandaki corridor has been obstructed due to a landslide at Dablyang in Baglung Municipality-10.
According to Basanta Pandey, Public Information Officer of the Baglung Police, a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall since Tuesday evening completely disrupted the corridor.
There is a least chance of road clearance immediately as the rain has not stopped, he said.
More than 18,000 people in lockdown as wildfire rages in Catalonia
Spanish authorities ordered more than 18,000 residents of the northeastern Tarragona province to remain indoors on Tuesday and several dozen were evacuated as a wildfire raged out of control, consuming almost 3,000 hectares (7,413 acres) of vegetation, Reuters reported.
Large parts of Spain are on high alert for wildfires after the country experienced its hottest June on record. Two people died in a wildfire on July 1 in the region of Catalonia where Tarragona is located.
The latest fire broke out early on Monday in a remote area near the village of Pauls, where strong winds and rugged terrain have hampered firefighting efforts, authorities said. An emergency military unit was deployed early on Tuesday alongside more than 300 firefighters working in the area.
"Since midnight, firefighters have been battling the blaze with gusts of wind reaching up to 90 kilometres per hour (56 miles per hour)," Catalonia's regional firefighting service said, adding that the strong Mistral wind was expected to ease by the afternoon, according to Reuters.
Death toll from Texas flood hits triple-digits as tally of missing tops 180
The death toll from the July Fourth flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas Hill Country rose on Tuesday to at least 109, many of them children, as search teams pressed on through mounds of mud-encrusted debris looking for scores of people still missing, Reuters reported.
According to figures released by Governor Gregg Abbott, authorities were seeking more than 180 people whose fate remained unknown four days after one of the deadliest U.S. flood events in decades.
The bulk of fatalities and the search for additional victims were concentrated in Kerr County and the county seat of Kerrville, a town of 25,000 residents transformed into a disaster zone when torrential rains struck the region early last Friday, flooding the Guadalupe River basin.
The bodies of 94 flood victims, about a third of them children, have been recovered in Kerr County alone as of Tuesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said at a late-afternoon news conference after touring the area by air, according to Reuters.
