Nepal
Tuesday night's flood in the Manohara river damaged property worth Rs 7.5 million, according to a new assessment.
The river flows through the border of Kathmandu and Bhaktapur districts.
Flood has destroyed landless squatters, infrastructures at Kadaghari Police Sector, Divyashwori Land Integrated Project, and other settlements surrounding the river.
Uma Thapa, the office chief of Bhaktapur-chapter of Nepal Red Cross Society, shared that 16 houses and huts of landless squatters and 11 houses in the settlement above the landless squatters were demolished as well as more than 300 huts of landless squatters suffered damages.
Lawmaker Mahesh Basnet and Bagmati Province Assembly Member Pratima Shrestha visited the flood-hit areas and demanded the government address the problems of the flood-affected people immediately.
Similarly, a team comprising Madhyapur Thimi Municipality’s Mayor Surendra Shrestha and Deputy Mayor Bijay Krishna Shrestha visited the flood-hit areas and enquired about the loss caused by the flood.
Deputy Superintendent of Police at Metropolitan Police Range, Bhaktapur, Raju Pandey, said that property worth Rs 7.5 million was destroyed as the flood swept away cattle and damaged foodstuff.
A disaster management team of the Bhaktapur-based Nepal Red Cross Society was mobilised in the flood-hit areas on Tuesday. The team was involved in rescuing as well as distributing relief in the area, said Manoj Kumar Thapa, the President of Nepal Red Cross Society in Bhaktapur.
Details of losses caused by the flood were collected on Wednesday. The distribution of relief materials to flood-affected people is being carried out today.
Nepal Red Cross Society is distributing food items as well as other goods to flood-affected people.
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