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Floods triggered by incessant rainfall have submerged some settlements in Kanchanpur.

According to the District Police Office, Kanchanpur, most of the areas have been affected by the floods. Three settlements of Dodhara Chandani Municipality-10 have been inundated after the Mahakali and Jogbuda rivers entered the settlements.

Kutiyakabhar of Jogbuda and Shanti Tole and Lisani Tole of Wari have been inundated. Similarly, Bhimdutta Municipality, Bedkot, Shuklaphanta, Krishnapur Municipality and most of the settlements in the southern region of Kanchanpur have been flooded.

Spokesperson at the District Police Office, Deputy Superintendent of Police Umesh Joshi, said 1,622 people, who were affected by the floods across the district, have been rescued and shifted to safer places.

Normal life has been affected in Kailali due to floods triggered by incessant rainfall.

Some families have been displaced after floods entered the settlement in Bhajani of Kailali on Sunday night. The municipality and the locals have jointly shifted the people of the risky areas to postal roads and high-placed buildings throughout the night.

Krishna Dhamala, a local, said some families in Bhajani have left the settlement overnight and moved to the streets. The people living in the settlement sat on the postal road with children and livestock at night due to the rise in water level in rivers and rivulets.

The floods inundated almost all the wards of Bhajani. All the houses in ward-8 have been inundated. "Hundreds of families have moved to the streets and high-rise houses with their belongings after the settlements were waterlogged following incessant rains", he said. The southern and eastern parts of Kailali have been inundated due to the floods.

The settlements of Tikapur, Bhajani, Janaki and Joshipur of Kailali near the rivers and rivulets have been inundated due to the rise in water level in the River Chure and the Karnali River. Some families have been displaced in Tikapur Municipality.

Disaster Management Section Chief of Tikapur Nirmala Chaudhary said that 65 houses of Parseni, Bhartapur and Bhagwanpur of ward-6 have been inundated due to the flood in Patharaya River.

Ward 2, 5, 7 and 8 of Tikapur are at risk of inundation as the water level in the Karnali River increases. Similarly, Joshipur rural municipality has also been inundated due to incessant rain.

Chief of the disaster management section of Joshipur Rural Municipality, Sita Singh said water from the Kada river has entered Bhittariya and inundated it.

Most of Janaki's wards have been inundated and some families have been displaced.

Disaster management section chief Netra Prasad Jaisi said many settlements in ward 4 and 7 have been inundated. "There are 11 families living in Girdharpur of ward 4. There are 15 families living in Farela of ward 7," Jaisi said.

Dozens of settlements in Janaki are waterlogged. The municipalities in the area have intensified their work such as cleaning drains after the floods ran through the settlements. They have been engaged in the work of opening the jammed drains and draining out water in the submerged areas.

Information Officer at the District Administration Office, Shivaraj Joshi, shared that various places in the district have been inundated due to rain so the teams are being mobilized to minimize the damage.

Since the onset of the monsoon, 62 people have been killed, four people are missing and 90 people have been injured due to monsoon-related disasters such as floods, landslides and lightning.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority and the National Emergency Operation Center under the Ministry of Home Affairs informed about the statistics.

According to the Center, one person in Morang, three in Dang, one in Kailali, two in Kavrepalanchowk, one in Udayapur, nine in Palpa were killed due to floods during the period.

Two people are missing due to flooding. Five houses were completely damaged. Eleven houses have been partially damaged.  Similarly, 34 people lost their lives due to landslides. According to the Authority's statistics, two people went missing and 38 people were injured due to landslides.

Likewise, 43 houses have been completely damaged by landslides and 24 houses were partially damaged. Nineteen sheds were damaged and 12 people were injured. Similarly, 11 houses are completely damaged and six houses are partially damaged due to inundation.

According to the Authority, the floods and landslides have caused damage equivalent to around Rs 8 million so far.  According to statistics, 19 people died and 35 people were injured due to lightning.

 "Monsoon-related incidents such as floods, landslides, inundation and lightning are still increasing. We are moving forward by coordinating with the relevant agencies to reduce the damage," said Dr Dijan Bhattarai, the spokesperson for the Authority.

 This year, it is estimated that there will be more rain than average and 1.8 million people will be affected by it so it is important to be cautious, he added.

According to him, during this year's monsoon period, it is estimated that 412 thousand households will be affected by monsoon related disasters.

Sunil Pokharel, the spokesperson of the Department of Meteorology, informed that the risk of flooding will decrease throughout the country from Monday.

A total of 14 people lost their lives to disasters triggered by incessant monsoon rain at different parts of the country since Friday night. 

Others three have gone missing in the landslides, flooding, and inundations. According to Nepal Poice spokesperson and Deputy Inspector General of Police, Dan Bahadur Karki, the number of injuries in such incidents is 18.

Of the 14 casualties, one has been reported in Kathmandu, three in Syangja, two in Parbat, one in Udayapur, two in Kavrepalanchowk, one in Palpa, three in Tanahun and one in Dang.

Manoj BK from Lakhan Thapa Rural Municipality-6 in Gorkha was killed in a landslide in Nagarjun Municipality-3, Kathmandu.

Others killed due to landslides include Raj Rai from Rautamai Rural Municipality-5 in Udayapur, and Jalamaya Rujal Magar, and Setimaya Rujal from Roshi Rural Municipality-11 in Kavrepalanchowk.

Further casualties from landslides include Hira Nepal, Anisha Bastola, and Shyam Bhandari from Shuklagandaki Municipality-7 in Tanahun, and Guweshori Sharma Marasini, Madhav Sharma and Harimaya Sharma from Biruwa Rural Municipality-6 in Syangja, according to the police.

According to Police Headquarters, Naxal, Jhalak Prasad Sharma and Tulsi Prasad Sharma of Phalebas Municipality-1 Karkineta in Parbat, Rima Saraha Ranamgar of Mathagadhi Rural Municipality-6 in Palpa and Maniam Chaudhary of Bagrapur in Lamahi Municipality-8 of Dang were killed in the landslide. 

Similarly, Jangmu Sherpa of Dolakha Gaurishankar Rural Municipality-9, Rajkumar Yadav of Rajpur Rural Municipality-2, Dang and Khem Kumari Mall of Syangja Bhirkot Municipality-5 Jyamire are among those who disappeared in flooding and landslide incidents.

Police further shared that so far, five people have been injured in Tanahun, one person in Gulmi, two people in Okhaldhunga, three people in Kathmandu, one in Chitwan and six people in Syangja.

The police said that due to the heavy rains, life has been affected across the country and the water level in major rivers including Koshi and Narayani is high.

Even today, the police are continuing to patrol and monitor the banks of rivers and streams in Kathmandu Valley.

Spokesperson Karki said that the water level in the river in the Valley has increased due to incessant rainfall.

Security personnel from all three security agencies have been mobilized in the affected areas with high alertness, the Police Headquarters said.