Individuals have a look at the flooded Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, July 6, 2024. | Photograph credit score: AP
Heavy rains in Nepal have precipitated flash floods and landslides and killed a minimum of 14 folks throughout the nation, whereas catastrophe groups are trying to find 9 lacking, police stated on July 7.
Flooding in India, in addition to in low-lying Bangladesh, has additionally precipitated widespread injury and affected thousands and thousands of individuals.
“Police are working with different businesses and native folks to seek out the lacking folks,” stated Nepalese police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki. AFP.
The lifeless and lacking individuals are situated in a number of locations.
Monsoon rains from June to September trigger widespread dying and destruction every year in South Asia, however the variety of lethal floods and landslides has elevated in recent times.
Specialists say local weather change and elevated street development are making the issue worse.
Components of Nepal have been receiving heavy rains since July 4, prompting catastrophe authorities within the Himalayan nation to warn of flash flooding in a number of rivers.
There have been reviews of flooding in a number of low-lying districts bordering India.
Final month, 14 folks have been killed in Nepal by fierce storms that triggered landslides, lightning and flooding.
In India, floods have hit the northeastern state of Assam, killing six folks up to now 24 hours, the Assam Catastrophe Administration Authority stated on July 7.
This brings the dying toll from the rains since mid-Might to 58.
In decrease Bangladesh, downstream from India, the catastrophe administration company stated flooding had affected greater than two million folks.
A lot of the nation is made up of deltas the place the Himalayan rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, meander in direction of the ocean after passing by India.
The summer time monsoon gives South Asia with 70-80% of its annual rainfall.
