MADHAV KUMAR NEPAL LEAVES FOR XIAN, CHINA

UML LEADER MADHV KUMAR NEPAL LEAVES FOR CHINA

Kathmandu, 21 Sept.: Senior UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal left for Xian, China, Wednesday to participate in an international conference in climate change.
The former prime minister will address the conference.
Former Prime Minister Kirtinidhi Bista is also attending the conference.
Nepal will fly to Beijing from Xian for talks with senior Chinese leaders before returning home in one week.
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DEATH TOLL IN QUAKE RISES TO 11. HUNDREDS INJURED





Kathmandu, 21 Sept.: The quake toll rose to 11 and hundreds were injured across the country on Tuesday, THE Rising Nepal reports.
The quake, which had its centre in Taplejung and Sikkim, claimed the lives of more than 80 people in Nepal, Tibet and Sikkim combined.
Seven persons died in Tibet, 50 in Sikkim and the rest in other parts of India.
A five-year-old boy died when he was trapped in quake-ravaged house in Sankhuwasabha while another was killed in stampede in Bara.
Two persons, who lost their consciousness in Haripur of Sunsari and Kankadbhitta, Jhapa breathed their last.
One heart patient died of the impact of Sunday’s earthquake in Dharan.
Dhan Bahadur Saude, 65, of Dharan Municipality 18, who had been taking medicine for his heart problem for the last five years, succumbed to mental complications caused by the quake on Monday evening.
Saude was mentally disturbed immediately after the powerful jolt rocked the country. He was admitted to the BP Koirala Institute of Health Science.
With this, the number of deaths from the earthquake rose to three in Dharan alone.
According to our Ilam correspondent, more than five hundred households were displaced by the earthquake.
The displaced families are taking shelter in their neighbours’ houses and makeshift tents.
"We are forced to live in a shed after the quake demolished my house," said Hari Prasad Rai of Nayanbazaar-1.
The quake damaged more than 500 houses in 48 VDCs of the district. Around 40 houses were destroyed in Barebote VDC alone adjoining district headquarters.
More than five dozen school buildings have been damaged while the police posts in Rakse, Jeetpur and Manebhanjyang were also destroyed.
The District Natural Disaster Relief Committee distributed relief materials to the quake victims in 15 VDCs including Jirme, Jogmai, Jamuna, Pashupati Nagar, Shankhejung, Samalbung and Barbote, said committee chief and CDO Janak Raj Regmi.
It provided Rs, 2,000 and one tent to each family.
Regmi said that the committee faced difficulty in distributing the relief materials to the victims as the government had not yet dispatched them.
Meanwhile, one person died in a landslide triggered by the quake in Taplejung.
Five police offices were completely damaged in Siwa, Lelep, Khebang and Sablakhu VDCs.
The whole settlement in Ghunsa VDC moved out fearing the possibility of an avalanche.
In Panchthar, police posts in Ranke and
Phalaicha were completely damaged and two others received minor damages.
In Jhapa, around

six police posts were damaged.
Meanwhile, a landslide triggered by the torrential rains following the jolt injured two persons seriously in the remote VDC of Uhiyama in Gorkha.
The landslide swept away a shed where Pri Bahadur Ghale and Subidar Ghale were staying.
It also swept away a water tank worth Rs. 1.5 million and 10 goats.
More than one dozen schools were left with cracks because of the quake.
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