Friday 15 August 2014
Discovery News NEPAL
Nepal
Landslide Blocks Major River
A Nepalese survivor of the landslide in northeastern Nepal
receives medical treatment
at a hospital in
Kathmandu on Aug. 2, 2014.
GETTY IMAGES
A massive landslide in northeastern Nepal left at least
seven people dead and dozens
missing today,
putting several villages at risk of flash floods due to debris blocking a
major river,
officials said.
The landslide struck in the early hours, burying two dozen
homes before dumping
mud and stones into
the Sunkoshi river, northeast of the capital Kathmandu, an
official in the prime
minister’s office told AFP.
“We are trying to find a way to release the blocked water
safely,” said Prakash
Adhikari, press
adviser to the prime minister.
Nepal’s government has declared the landslide-hit area a
“flood crisis zone” and
ordered the army to
use explosives to try to clear the river.
A police official at the scene of the disaster said seven
bodies had been retrieved
with dozens more
missing.
“Police and army officials are trying to find the missing
people and evacuate the
villages on the
riverside,” local police official, Bharat Bahadur Bohara, told AFP by
phone.
Scores of people die every year from flooding and landslides
during the monsoon
season in Nepal.
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