Floods affect more than 8, 000 households in Banke
More than 8,000 households have been affected due to inundation caused by flash floods triggered by incessant rainfall in Banke district. Eight thousand seven hundred three households at eight local levels in the district have been directly affected due to flood and inundation, said Topendra Bahadur KC, Assistant Chief District Officer of Banke district. KC said the highest number of affected households is in Rapti Sonari Rural Municipality. Three thousand five hundred families are affected in Rapti Sonari, 2696 families in Narainapur Rural Municipality, 1950 families in Duduwa Rural Municipality, 249 households in Khajura Rural Municipality, 220 families in Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City, 50 families in Baijanath Rural Municipality, 20 in Janaki Rural Municipality and 18 families in Kohalpur Municipality. Similarly, 181 households have been completely damaged while 598 households sustained partial damages due to flood and inundation. One thousand one hundred forty-three people have been displaced in the eight local levels in Banke district. Two thousand one hundred thirty-one flood affected people have been rescued from 37 wards of the eight local levels. People living in Rapti Sonari, Narainapur and Duduwa Rural Municipalities, the settlements in the downstream of the Rapti River, have been affected the most due to the flooding and inundation. Four hundred fifty families have been displaced in Tikulipur village alone, ward chairperson Gyanendra Oli said.
Weather likely to improve from today
The weather will gradually start improving from today with the low pressure system developed near Nepal becoming weaker, the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Meteorological Forecasting Division said. Meteorologist at the Division Heera Bhattarai said that although the monsoon is active, the low pressure system is weak, hence there will be gradual improvement in the weather. She said the weather will fully improve across the country in the next two days. "Although the monsoon is ongoing, the rain-causing system has become weaker. Rainfall is likely at some places of Karnali and Sudurpaschim and at many places of the eastern region today. The weather will start to improve from tomorrow in Sudurpaschim and Karnali provinces while it will be fair across the country beginning Thursday," Bhattarai said. The Division said that it will take a week more for the monsoon's exit. The low pressure area near Haryana, India is impacting the weather in Nepal at present. The weather will be cloudy throughout the country due to the influence of this weather system. Light rain is taking place at one or two places of Province 1, Bagmati and Lumbini provinces. It will be cloudy in the afternoon today. There are chances of light to moderate rain along with thunder and lightning at some places of Province-1, Lumbini, Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces and at one or two places in the rest of the provinces. The minimum temperature in Kathmandu was 18 degrees Celsius and the maximum 26 degrees Celsius in the last 24 hours, the Division stated.
2 electrocuted in Birgunj
Two laborers were electrocuted in Birgunj. The deceased have been identified as Saiphullah Ansari (30) of Hariharpur, Dhobini Rural Municipality-3, Parsa and Dhruba Prasad Sah (60) of Ranighat, Birgunj Metropolitan City-9. DSP Ramesh Basnet said that Ansari died when he came in contact with a live wire while working at the house of Ram Kishor Prasad Kurmi in Birgunj-26. Similarly, Sah, who was critically injured after he got an electric shock while cleaning the roof of the house of Satrudhan Sarraff at Bus Park in Birgunj-8, was rushed to the Asharam Hospital but doctors pronounced him dead on arrival, DSP Basnet said. He said that they are looking into both cases.
82 tourists stranded in Manang rescued
A total of 82 tourists- domestic and foreign combined- stranded in Manang, a mountainous district, due to adverse weather have been rescued. Chief of the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) Lekhnath Gautam said that the tourists were stranded because of adverse weather caused by incessant rainfall since last Tuesday. Among the total tourists, 73 are foreign and nine domestic ones. The roadways were disrupted due to landslides, so a helicopter was used for rescuing the tourists. The tourists had reached Manang district via the Annapurna trail. They also reached the Himalayan areas of Gorkha and Upper Dolpa.
