Myagdi flood

With this year’s monsoon becoming more active, as many as 54 people have already been killed and 20 others have gone missing in landslides and floods triggered by torrential rains across the country.As many as 38 people were killed in Pyuthan alone when their houses were either swept away by the swollen Jhimruk and its tributaries or buried by landslides.The Home Ministry officials have said that 14 hilly districts have been affected badly by the monsoon rains, and almost all the plain districts have been under the flood waters as major rivers have breached banks entering the settlements.

Reports from across the country state that highways, bridges, irrigation canals, trekking routes, micro-hydropower projects and other infrastructure have been destroyed.Traffic movement in some hilly highways such as Baglung-Myagdi has been completely halted after some stretches of the highway were swept away.Security personnel have also evacuated people from the flood hit and landslide areas to safer places and the district Red Cross Societies have provided a meager amount of relief assistance to the affected people.The Home Ministry officials have said that the security personnel, including Nepali Army, have been kept on the standby to evacuate and rescue people trapped in the floods and landslides. Some of them were also airlifted from inundated areas.