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A landslide buried the diversion tunnel of the under-construction Arun-3 Hydropower Project in Makalu Rural Municipality 3 and 5 of Sankhuwasabha district. DSP Birendra Godar, Chief at the District Police Office, Sankhuwasabha, said that the Arun River was blocked after the landslide buried the diversion tunnel this morning. He said that only 25 percent water came out of the tunnel. The Arun River was diverted through a 229-meter-long diversion tunnel. The river was flowing through a diversion tunnel by constructing a temporary dam. DSP Godar said that the river was blocked after the landslide occurred at the place from where the tunnel’s water is released. The water has accumulated in the 18-meter-high dam after the closure of the tunnel. The project said that more than a two-kilometer lake has been formed due to the dam. It will be dangerous if the water accumulates for a long time. The workers of the project have been shifted to a safer place. The project said that attempts are being made to release the water from the tunnel itself.  

A nurse was found hanging in Kathmandu on Saturday. Anuma Shrestha (34), in-charge of the Gastro Medicine Ward in Bir Hospital, was found hanging in the Boharatar-based house of Dr Sujan Dhakal. Dr Dhakal works at the Kanti Child Hospital. SSP Himalaya Kumar Shrestha, spokesperson at the Kathmandu Valley Police Office, Rani Pokharai, confirmed that Shrestha was found hanging in the house of Dr Dhakal. “Shrestha was found hanging in the house of Dr Dhakal. Further investigation into the incident is underway,” he said. According to a preliminary investigation, Dhakal has been staying outside Kathmandu for the past two months. Dhakal’s family informed police after they found Shrestha dead. Police said that they have found a suicide note from the incident site. It has been learnt that Dhakal and Shrestha were in a relationship for a long time.    

Rainfall continues to take place as a result of the influence of westerly winds and local winds in some places of Gandaki, Karnali, Lumbini and Sudurpaschim provinces. Meteorologist Ganga Nagarkoti said that although rainfall stopped since Saturday evening in Kathmandu there is a possibility of rainfall today as well. There is a probability of rainfall in many parts of the country including Kathmandu Valley today. Kathmandu Valley is likely to experience rain with thunder and lightning later this afternoon. According to the latest 20-hour statistics of the Weather Forecasting Division, Kathmandu Valley experienced the highest rainfall with 43 mm of rain on Saturday. It has been raining in many places of the country including the federal capital since Saturday. There is a possibility of rain with thunder and lightning in some places of Madhesh province on Sunday as well.

After neighbors complained about the noise he was making, a Texas man went next door with an AR-15-style rifle and shot them, killing five people – including an eight-year-old child – as well as wounding three others at a home in Cleveland, Texas, on Friday night, The Guardian reported. Law enforcement patrolling the community more than 40 miles outside of Houston were searching for Francisco Oropeza, 38, who had been intoxicated and fled the scene, the sheriff of San Jacinto county, Greg Capers, told reporters on Saturday. Oropeza is facing five charges of murder, Capers told the Washington Post. By Saturday afternoon, as police continued to search for his whereabouts, Capers reportedly told local media that authorities believed they had cornered Oropeza in a wooded area. Family members had walked to his fence and asked Oropeza to cease shooting rounds in his yard because an infant was trying to sleep. Oropeza responded by saying that it was his property. Capers told reporters that video footage showed Oropeza walking up to the neighbors’ front door with the rifle. The killing, less than a year after the deadliest mass shooting at a Texas public school left 19 students and two teachers dead in Uvalde, marked the 174th mass shooting and 17th mass killing in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The archive defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more victims are killed or wounded. It defines a mass killing as one in which four or more victims are slain, according to The Guardian. That puts the United States at a record pace of mass killings this year. Currently, mass killings happen once every six and a half days, according to an analysis by the Associated Press and USA Today. Capers told reporters that the killings in Cleveland unfolded about 11.30pm local time. “Everyone that was shot was shot from the neck up, almost execution-style,” Capers said. Of the 10 people in the house, four people were found dead at the scene. A fifth – the youngest victim at 8 years old – died later at the hospital. All of victims were from Honduras. Oropeza is from Mexico. Honduras’s foreign minister, Eduardo Enrique Reina, wrote in Spanish on Twitter that Oropeza should face the “full weight of the law” for the killings. The Spanish language newspaper Tu Nota first reportedReina’s tweet. Capers noted that two women who were killed “were laying over these children were doing it in such an effort as to protect the child”. Those children survived, The Guardian reported. “It’s horrific,” Capers told the Washington Post. “No one should ever have to look at this scene, the blood, the trauma that went on in that house.”