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Body of girl missing in Trishuli found

CHITWAN, JUN 20 -

The body of a girl, who had gone missing in Trishuli River with four other persons, has been found on Thursday morning.

Locals had informed police after the body of Manika Regmi was found on the banks of Trishuli River at Kerabari of Kabilash VDC in Chitwan this morning.

The whereabouts of four other missing in the river has not been established yet. Four girls and a man aged 18 to 22, had gonemissing while they were swimming in the river last Saturday.

The victims, who went to Kurintar in Darechok VDC along Prithvi Highway to enjoy holiday, were the permanent residents of Bharatpur-5 in the district.

Schools shutdown due to flood

BUTWAL, JUN 18 -

Flood triggered by continuous rainfall since Sunday has caused huge damages in different places of Bhairahawa, Butwal and Palpa.

A road stretch near Siddhababa temple on the Butwal-Palpa road section along the Siddhartha Highway got crumbled due to incessant rainfall, said the Regional Traffic Police Office, Butwal.

Likewise, heavy rain and flood have adversely affected normal life in the human settlements nearby the banks of Tinahu and Danab Rivers.

One person went missing in the Tinahu River yesterday while human settlements around the River side have been heavily inundated, it is learnt.

Meanwhile, the private schools here also announced closure for four days from today realizing difficulty to operate regular school activities, said Krishna Khanal, Chairperson of Private and Boarding School s´ Organization of Nepal (PABSON), Rupandehi Chapter.

With this, at least 200 private schools will remain closed in the district.

The East-West Mahendra Highway and Siddhartha Highway are not in smooth operation because of downpour followed by flood . 

flood: Karnali flood inundates 1500 houses in Bardiya

flood: Karnali flood inundates 1500 houses in Bardiya: BARDIYA, JUN 18 - At least 1500 houses have been inundated due to the  flood  s in the Karnali River on Tuesday. Around 700 families...

Karnali flood inundates 1500 houses in Bardiya

BARDIYA, JUN 18 - At least 1500 houses have been inundated due to the flood s in the Karnali River on Tuesday.

Around 700 families have been displaced due to flood s in Sonaha, Murgarwa, Nawaranga of Daulatpur VDC in Rajapur Tappu of Bardiya district.

The flood s have also swept away a newly built embankment.

The flood ed river has also entered some 600 houses in Mukta Kamaiya settlement at Chediya in Rajapur VDC

At least 60 feared dead as monsoon lashes north India

INDIA, JUN 18 -

Torrential rains have triggered flash flood s and landslides in northern India, leaving at least 60 people feared dead and thousands stranded after the monsoon covered the country ahead of schedule, officials said Tuesday.

Authorities have called in military helicopters to try to rescue marooned residents and pilgrims after homes and roads were washed away in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, officials said.

"We are unable to confirm the number of deaths since most of the communication lines have broken down across the state," the minister for disaster and relief in Uttarakhand said.

"But at least 60 people are feared dead and nearly 50,000 are stranded," Yashpal Arya told AFP.

River water levels are continuing to rise across the state, clogging roads and leaving hundreds of pilgrims stranded on their way to visit Hindu shrines, officials said.

Television footage showed bridges, houses and other buildings crashing down and being washed away by the swirling waters. A swollen river is seen engulfing a giant statue of Lord Shiva in the tourist city of Rishikesh in Uttarakhand.

Fresh rains in Uttarakhand were hampering rescue efforts, with teams from the national disaster management authority camping in the popular pilgrimage town of Haridwar awaiting air lift to the worst-affected districts, officials said.

The state government was also readying food parcels and drinking water to be dropped by helicopters to remote villages cut-off by the torrential rains.

"The situation is very grim. The meteorological office has predicted that the rain will continue for another three days at least," government official Amit Chandola was quoted by television stations as saying.

In the neighbouring state of Himachal Pradesh, at least eight people were feared dead, a local police official told AFP by telephone.

A few villages close to the border with China have also seen unseasonal snowfall, leaving dozens of shepherds and thousands of sheep stranded, a village headman told AFP.

India's farming sector depends on the annual monsoon, which lashes the subcontinent from June to September, usually bringing some flood ing.

But the monsoon has arrived early this year, catching many by surprise. The country has received 68 percent more rain than normal for this time of year, data from the India Meteorological Department shows.

The normal expected rainfall in the country from June 1 to June 17 is 67.2 millimetres, but 112.9 millimetres of rain has been measured so far, the data showed.

Flood, landslide cause mayhem in Kalikot

KATHMANDU, JUN 18 - Thirteen people have been reported missing as they were washed off by the flood in Sannigad River in Kalikot district on Tuesday. Similarly a man was killed by a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in the area.

Man Bahadur Shahi, Takka Bahadur Bam, Krishna Neupane, Satya Bahadur Shahi, his wife, their five-year old son and three-year old daughter, Kala Thapa, Chanchala Shahi, Him Chula Shahi, Kamara Shahi, her infant daughter and Bhupendra Shahi have been reported to be missing in the flood .  

Moreover, many houses along with two bridges over the river have also been washed off. The flood is also reported to have rendered 17 families homeless .

Similarly the landslide at Sipkhana VDC killed Dal Sarki and washed off 10 houses in Mumra VDC leaving 43 people homeless . Also, a flood in the Karnali River along Kotwada VDC destroyed 18 hotels and shops.

According to the police, the homeless have been given shelter at the office of Potmara Power House.

Youths still missing in Trishuli

CHITWAN, JUN 18 -

Despite relentless efforts, security personnel have not been able to trace four women and a man, who went missing in the Trishuli River in Kurintar on Saturday, till Tuesday morning.

The security personnel from the Disaster Management Training Centre of the Armed Police Force in Kurintar searched for the victims throughout the day on Monday but failed to locate them. DSP Dipendra Giri said they are facing difficulties to search themissing due to the increasing water level in the river.

The victims have been identified as Rajani Regmi and her sisters Liza Regmi and Monika Regmi and their friends Asmita Thapa as well as Janak Raut. The Regmi’s brother Prashanta is safe in the incident.

The victims, who went to Kurintar in Darechok VDC along Prithvi Highway to enjoy holiday, were the permanent residents of Bharatpur-5 in the district. The victims went to Kurintar on motorcycles in the morning. They went to the river bank after taking lunch at a Kurintar-based resort.

Flood in Mahakali River, 23 sand miners stranded

              KANCHANPUR, JUN 17 -

Flood in Mahakali River triggered by heavy rainfall since two days has inundated Titreyaghat area in Bhimdarshan Municipality-13 of Kanchanpur district.

23 sand miners have been stranded in the middle of Titreyaghat due to swollen Mahakali River.

A joint rescue team of Nepal Army, Armed Police Force, and Nepal Police have been making their efforts to rescue those stranded people since early this morning.

Meanwhile, locals were able to save lives of three sand miners with the help of a tube last night.