Death toll from western Nepal landslide rises to 22
By Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Rescuers in Nepal battled towards torrential rains to drag out our bodies from the wreckage of houses buried by a landslide that brought on 22 deaths and injured 10 folks, officers mentioned on Sunday.
The most recent calamity occurred in Achham district, about 450 km (281 miles) west of the capital metropolis of Kathmandu.
Flash floods and landslides are a typical prevalence within the mountainous terrain of the Himalayan nation particularly in the course of the annual monsoon rains between June and September.
No less than 70 folks have been killed and 13 went lacking throughout the nation in flash floods and landslides this 12 months, in keeping with official information.
Volunteers, police and navy rescuers have been searching for folks lacking in Achham. Within the neighbouring Kailali district, authorities recovered a physique of a fisherman who had been swept away within the overflowing Geta river.
Yagya Raj Joshi, an official in Kailali mentioned about 1,500 folks displaced due to the floods have been sheltered in public buildings.
Native media broadcasted pictures of swathes of farms inundated by flood waters, a destroyed suspension bridge and villagers wading via chest deep water.
(Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Enhancing by Rupam Jain and Christian Schmollinger)
