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Flooded Manohara river damaged property worth around Rs 7.5 million.

Manohara river flows through the border of Kathmandu and Bhaktapur districts.

Flood has destroyed landless squatters, other settlements surrounding the river, infrastructures at Kadaghari Police Sector and Divyashwori Land Integrated Project on Tuesday night.

Lawmaker Mahesh Basnet and Bagmati Province Assembly member Pratima Shrestha visited the flood hit areas and demanded the government to address the problems of the flood-affected people immediately.

Similarly, a team comprising Madhyapurthimi municipality Mayor Surendra Shrestha and Deputy Mayor Bijay Krishna Shrestha visited the flood-hit areas and enquired about the loss caused by the flood.

Deputy Superintendent of Police at Metropolitan Police Range, Bhaktapur, Raju Pandey, said property worth Rs 7.5 million was destroyed as flood swept away cattle as damaged food stuffs.

A disaster management team of the Nepal Red Cross Society, Bhaktapur, was mobilized at flood hit areas on Tuesday and involved in rescue as well as relief distribution, said President of Nepal Red Cross Society, Bhaktapur, Manoj Kumar Thapa.

Details of loss caused by flood were collected on Wednesday.

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Office Chief of Bhaktapur chapter of Nepal Red Cross Society, Uma Thapa shared that 16 houses and huts of landless squatters and 11 houses in the settlement above the landless squatters were demolished as well as more than 300 huts of landless squatters suffered damages.

Nepal Red Cross Society is distributing food stuffs as well as other goods to the flood-affected people.

The Federation of Community Forest Users Nepal, the umbrella organization of community forest users' groups, on Thursday staged a demonstration in Kathmandu demanding annulment of Forest Regulation 2079.

Saying that the Regulation was against the constitution, federalism, Forest Act 2076, community forest rights and women rights, the federation staged the demonstration at Maitighar in Kathmandu demanding annulment of the Forest Regulation 2079.

Federation Chairman Bharati Pathak said that they were compelled to stage the protest after the government brought the Regulation to put the community forest consumers, who contributed to the forest sector, in difficulty.

The federation has been staging demonstrations in district, province and central level to mount pressure on the government to scrap the Regulation.

People displaced after the Saptakoshi river coursed through settlements in Udayapur have started falling sick.

The people, who have been living in tents arranged by the government, have started suffering from viral fever.

Belka Municipal Hospital medical superintendent Dr Bishal Rai said that the people are believed to have been taken ill by drinking contaminated water and unhealthy food.

He said that the children and elderly people have been affected the most.

Dr Rai said that they have been providing treatment to the people by going to their tents.

Apart from that, over two dozen people visit the hospital on a daily basis.

“Most of the people are found falling sick by drinking contaminated water and unhealthy food,” Dr Rai said, adding, “They are suffering from high fever, diarrhea and vomiting.”

“People have fallen sick as the food products provided by the government to the flood displaced people are found to be of poor quality,” flood victim Manisha Majhi said.

Locals said that though the high-ranking officials have visited the area, no one has shown interest in resolving the problem.

So far, 1, 051 people of 109 families were displaced after the floods gushed into the human settlements, SP Gyanendra Prasad Phuyal said.

They have been kept in Koshi Janata Secondary School and in the building of the Red Cross in Bandanda among other places.

Municipal Chief Ashok Karki said that 2, 500 families were displaced after Koshi river entered the settlements.

Five women heading to the UAE from the Immigration Office of the Tribhuvan International Airport have been arrested.

The Immigration Office apprehended the women heading to the UAE via Kuwait after the officials found the documents submitted to the office fake. They have been handed over to the police.

According to a source, the detainees have been identified as Maya Tamang Parbati Sarki,  Anju Bohara, Karuna Singh Thakuri and Somi Dhimal.

"The plus 2 certificates submitted by them are found to be fake. They even did not have travel history," an official at the Immigration Office said.

The women were preparing to go to the UAE via Kuwait by Jazeera Air.

The Home Ministry has been discouraging the people from working in Gulf countries on tourist visas.

It has been learnt that the human trafficking racket were preparing to take the women to UAE with false promises of lucrative jobs.