The demise toll in Nepal‘s flash floods and landslides, triggered by heavy rains, has reached 14, and 9 persons are lacking, based on the nation’s police.
“Police are working with different businesses and locals to search out the lacking folks,” stated Dan Bahadur Karki, a police spokesman, to AFP. The casualties and lacking individuals are scattered throughout varied places.
Yearly, the monsoon rains from June to September convey widespread demise and destruction throughout South Asia.Nonetheless, lately, the variety of deadly floods and landslides has elevated considerably. Consultants attribute this escalation to local weather change and the rise in highway building.
Since Thursday, sure areas of Nepal have been experiencing heavy rainfall, prompting catastrophe authorities within the Himalayan nation to subject warnings about flash floods in a number of rivers. There have additionally been stories of flooding in a number of lowland districts bordering India.
Final month, ferocious storms in Nepal claimed the lives of 14 folks, inflicting landslides, lightning strikes, and flooding.
Within the northeastern Indian state of Assam, floods have inundated the area, ensuing within the demise of six folks within the final 24 hours, based on the Assam Catastrophe Administration Authority on Sunday. This brings the full demise toll from the downpours since mid-Could to 58, AFP reported.
In low-lying Bangladesh, situated downstream from India, the catastrophe administration company reported that floods have affected greater than two million folks. A good portion of the nation consists of deltas the place the Himalayan rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, wind in direction of the ocean after traversing by means of India.
The summer season monsoon brings 70-80 % of the annual rainfall to South Asia.
“Police are working with different businesses and locals to search out the lacking folks,” stated Dan Bahadur Karki, a police spokesman, to AFP. The casualties and lacking individuals are scattered throughout varied places.
Yearly, the monsoon rains from June to September convey widespread demise and destruction throughout South Asia.Nonetheless, lately, the variety of deadly floods and landslides has elevated considerably. Consultants attribute this escalation to local weather change and the rise in highway building.
Since Thursday, sure areas of Nepal have been experiencing heavy rainfall, prompting catastrophe authorities within the Himalayan nation to subject warnings about flash floods in a number of rivers. There have additionally been stories of flooding in a number of lowland districts bordering India.
Final month, ferocious storms in Nepal claimed the lives of 14 folks, inflicting landslides, lightning strikes, and flooding.
Within the northeastern Indian state of Assam, floods have inundated the area, ensuing within the demise of six folks within the final 24 hours, based on the Assam Catastrophe Administration Authority on Sunday. This brings the full demise toll from the downpours since mid-Could to 58, AFP reported.
In low-lying Bangladesh, situated downstream from India, the catastrophe administration company reported that floods have affected greater than two million folks. A good portion of the nation consists of deltas the place the Himalayan rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, wind in direction of the ocean after traversing by means of India.
The summer season monsoon brings 70-80 % of the annual rainfall to South Asia.
