Over 1000 houses flooded across Nepal

Incessant rainfall for the past couple of days in various parts of Nepal has inundated over 1,000 houses, The Kathmandu Post reported on Friday.

According to the daily, a dozen villages of Udaypur district in eastern Nepal, some 170 km east of Kathmandu, are completely filled with flood water from local Triyuga and Sapta Koshi rivers due to non-stop rainfall since the past four days.

Around 500 houses in the district are submerged with flood water from the Sapta Koshi River. Similarly, flood at Triyuga River has affected over 60 families of Sundarpur village in the district.

Also, over six dozen villages in Sunsari district, some 220 km east of Kathmandu, in eastern Nepal, have been submerged due to continuous rainfall. After the rain water inundated over 400 houses at the villages have been taking shelter at local school buildings and government quarters.

At least 100 houses in Rautahat district in central Nepal, some110 km south of Kathmandu, have been inundated due to the flood atlocal Lalbakaiya River. Flood hit villagers have abandoned their houses and properties and shifted elsewhere in search of shelter, said village development committee chairperson Surendra Yadav.

Meanwhile, more than two dozen households in some villages in Nawalparasi district in western Nepal, some 160 km west of Kathmandu, have been displaced due to flood in their villages. Displaced villagers are facing water and food crisis. In some villages, locals are using boats to move around village as flood has immersed the villages.

Of late, flood victims in the district are suffering from gastroenteritis, typhoid, cold and fever. However, due to lack of medicines at the local sub-health posts, sick people have been left in a lurch.

At least 19 households have been displaced while more than a dozen houses have been inundated due to flood in Jhapa district in eastern Nepal, some 320 km east of Kathmandu. A lot of houses are facing the risk of flood, while hundreds of hectares of farmland have turned into river banks due to flood.