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The weather will be partly to generally cloudy across the country along with rain and thunder and lightning at some places today.

According to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, there is a possibility of light to moderate rainfall with thunderstorm and lightning at some places of hilly region and many places of other parts of the country.

The same weather would continue on Saturday. The sky of hilly region of the country would remain generally to fully cloudy while it would be partly to generally cloudy in the remaining regions in the night.

Light to moderate rainfall with thunderstorm and lightning has been forecast at some places of hilly areas and few places of other parts of the country as well as heavy rainfall is likely to take place at one or two places of Gandaki province.

As per the Meteorological Forecasting Division, today's minimum temperature in Kathmandu Valley is recorded at 20.5 degrees Celsius and maximum temperature at 28.2 degrees Celsius.

At least 50 goats died after being struck by lightning at Ripgaun of Sarkegad Rural Municipality-2 in Humla district.

A person has also sustained minor injuries while some other livestock died in the incident.

Ward Chairman of Sarkegad Rural Municipality-2 Siddha Karki said the livestock were in the pastureland for the grazing.

Ward Chairman Karki shared that details of the incident are still awaited as the pastureland is far away from the residential area.

Police on Thursday confiscated a huge amount of betel nuts meant to be smuggled to India.

The betel nuts worth over Rs 80 million were confiscated from Budhanagar in Biratnagar Metropolitan City-18, police said.

Chief District Officer of Morang Kashi Raj Dahal said that police seized 219, 596 betel nuts packed in 2,678 sacks from eight trucks bearing Indian registration number plates.

The market price of the seized betel nuts is Rs 86. 30 million.

Police said that they have taken the trucks (UP 45 T 1624, MP 09 HG 8320, MP 22 H 1031, UP 50 BT 7277, UP 62 T 8121, UP 54 T 6429, UP 50 AT 3158 and UP 62 CT 0627) under control for investigation.

According to a police source, betel nuts imported from third countries are found being smuggled to India through Nepal.

India has banned the import of betel nuts from the countries except Nepal.

The source, however, said that the people smuggle the betel nuts from Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia among other countries to India taking the advantage of open border.

Police said that the confiscated betel nuts may belong to a businessman of Jhapa.

Betel nuts with a huge amount are not produced in Nepal.

A person died and 17 others were injured when a bus and a microbus collided with each other in Ichhakamana of Chitwan district on Thursday.

The bus (Na 6 Kha 1340) heading towards Bajhang from Kathmandu collided head-on with the microbus (Lu 2 Kha 3502) en route of Kathmandu from Bhairahawa at Chumlingtar in Ichhakamana-3 of Chitwan at around 5 pm yesterday.

A person, who was critically injured in the incident, breathed his last during the course of treatment while the injured are also receiving the treatment.

Further investigation into the incident is underway.