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Tuesday, September 18, 2012


RAIN CONTINUES TO PLAY HAVOC CLAIMING LIVES Kathmandu, 18 Sept.: Rain continues to create havoc, claiming lives, and prediction of more rainfall Wednesday. RSS reports from Dhading: As many as 309 houses were at landslide risk that was triggered by incessant rainfall in Tipling and Sertung VDCs in Dhading district. Local people were displaced and have taken shelter in the neighboring villages as the landslide occurred near the settlement, said Prem Tamang of Tipling VDC Ward No.5. The landslide eroded a little below the settlement in Tipling VDC Ward No. 5,6 ,and 7 and whole Labdhung village was brought into high risk. According to Che Ghale, a local resident, as many as 43 houses in Ward No. 5, 41 houses in Ward No. 6, and 95 houses in Ward No.7 and Dongdeng Secondary School, Tipling are at risk of landslide. Similarly, 70 houses at Arbe village, 60 houses in Chalise village in Sertung face the landslide risk. Meanwhile in Kathmandu, landslide swept away a house at Fahara, Tinthana VDC Ward No. 5, at 3:00 am today. The landslide following the incessant rainfall swept away a house of local Sunil Yadav. Yadav, who is the permanent resident of Sarlahi had built the house two years ago. No human casualty has been reported in the incident. The news agency reports from Butwal: Around 2,500 households living in different settlements around Tinau River face high risk of inundation due to incessant rainfall for the past three days in Rupandehi and surrounding districts. The landless squatters living in the settlements complained that they could not even sleep during the night hours for fear of possible inundation as the water level in the river was on the rise with the rainfall. The settlements in Hattisundh, Tinaunagar, Khayarghari and Pragatinagar are forced to remain awake to be safe from the river flood, said Netra Bahadur Ale, a local from Tinaunagar, Butwal Municipality Ward No. 13. River flood around the area had swept away some 40 huts last year, too. Meanwhile, the municipality has claimed that it has been working to shift the people at high risk in coordination with various organizations. nnnn

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