Kailali floods displace 1,200 families

Kailali floods displace 1,200 families

MOHAN BUDHAIR

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DHANGADI, JUL 20 -

Continuous rainfall since Thursday night has flooded some VDCs and Dhangadi Municipality in Kailali district. Around 1,200 families have been displaced in Dhangadi.

Floodwaters from rivers have waterlogged the municipality and its adjoining areas, while lack of a proper sewage system has made matters worse. Public movement has been affected as most parts of Dhangadi are submerged. Floodwaters have entered shops, causing damage worth thousands of rupees. Schools, shops and transport

service in Dhangadi remained closed on Friday.

Police rescued more than 50 families in Uttar Behadi village and moved them to a nearby school after their homes were flooded. More than 500 families from Santoshi Tol, Dhangadigaon, Shivanagar and Campus Road, Bishalnagar and Chatakpur in Dhangadi Municipality have been displaced.

Around 200 families in Srilanka village have also been displaced after floodwaters entered Pahalmanpur, Lalbhojhi, Ramshikhar Jhala and Bhajani. Keshavraj Bhatta of the Nepal Red Cross Society said the displaced are taking shelter in local school buildings and their relatives’ houses.

Personnel from the Nepal Army, the Armed Police Force and Nepal Police, along with Red Cross volunteers, have been mobilised in the affected areas.

In Dhangadi, at least 50 houses were destroyed, while property was damaged in around 3,000 houses. The compound walls of more than 100 houses collapsed, while domestic animals were swept away in some places. According to the Attariya-based field office of the Departemet of Hydrology and Metereology, Kailali district received 352.8 mm of rainfall in the past two days. Some villages in Kanchanpur have also been affected by floodwaters from the Mohana and Doda rivers. Authorities have, meanwhile, put a halt to crossing through the brige at Banabasa Barrage after the water level in the Mahakali river crossed the danger mark.

Landslide dams Lamjung river

LAMJUNG: A landslide has blocked a portion of the the Khudi river in Ghanapokhara-8 in Lamjung, putting downstream settlements at high risk of a flashflood. The debris has affected the river flow, resulting in the water level to rise around 150 meters high, police said. The police warned that the blockage could burst any time. 

The local administration on Friday evacuated 120 families to safer places, while continuous rainfall has made the situation worse. Around 90 houses close to the river are highly vulnerable. Ghanapokhara, Simpani and Khudi VDCs are also at risk. Meanwhile, landslips in different parts of Pyuthan have obstructed transport service. Some houses and office buildings in the district headquarters are also at risk of landslides, district police chief Ishwar Karki said.