KATHMANDU: At least 66 people have been killed in Nepal since early on Friday (Sep 27) as persistent downpours triggered flooding and landslides, closing major roads and disrupting domestic air travel, officia
The death toll could rise, they added, with another 69 people reported missing, and 60 injured since Friday morning, home ministry official Dil Kumar Tamang told Reuters.
Most rivers in the Himalayan nation have swollen, spilling over roads and bridges, authorities said, after nearly a week's delay in the retreat of South Asia's annual monsoon rains brought torrential downpours across the region. "Heavy rains are likely to continue until Sunday morning and weather is likely to clear after that," Maharjan told Reuters.
The Koshi River in the southeast, which causes deadly floods in India's eastern neighbouring state of Bihar almost every year, was running above the danger level at 450,000 cusecs, versus the normal figure of 150,000 cusecs, one official said.The river level is still rising, added Ram Chandra Tiwari, the area's top bureaucrat.
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