BAJURA: Thirteen families in Bajura district have been displaced due to flood and landslide. According to the District Police Office, Bajura, 13 families of Himali and Gaumul rural municipalities have been displaced due to flood and landslide that occurred on Friday as well as dozens of houses are at risk due to this. A house […]
BAJURA, July 29: Thirteen families in the Bajura district have been displaced due to flood and landslide.
According to the District Police Office, Bajura, 13 families of Himali and Gaumul Rural Municipality have been displaced due to the flood and landslide that occurred o
Movements of Bajura people have been affected after the Sanfe-Martadi road section got obstructed because of landslides at several places. After the road section from Bajugard to Martadi of Sanfe-Martadi was damaged at multiple points by the landslides triggered by continuous rain from July 21 to July 23, bringing vehicular movements to a complete halt, locals have been facing difficulty to travel. Landslide have fallen at Bajugard, Tapri Sera, Balde, Amkot and other areas of Sanfe-Martadi road section, informed District Po
Inspector at the District Police Office, Kalikot, Mahesh Shahi said that the water level of the Karnali River was decreased by 50 per cent. According to the police, the Karnali River was blocked due to the landslide of Juddi in Bajura.
As many as 124 households, including 27 families of the Himali Rural Municipality-4, in the northern Bajura district, and 97 households in Quidi village, in Ward No. 5, are having to live under tarpaulins after the incessant rains-triggered landslide swept through the entire villages on June 12 and 17.
BAJURA, June 28: The incessant rainfall since the 15th of this month has thrown life out of gear in the district. Scores of settlements are at risk due to flood and landslide triggered by the monsoon rain.
The rivers and streams in the district have become swollen intensifying the risk to nearby settlements.
Ninety four families have been displaced at Kyudi, Himali rural municipality-5 in the north-east of the district as the road below the settlement has collapsed and landslide has started occurring at the spot, said Birkha Bahadur Pandey, the Coordinator of the Prime Minister Employment Programme in the rural municipality.
The settlement is at risk of this landslide that has occurred on a section of the Rugin-Bichchhya rural road right below the village. As a result, the entire village has been displaced and the residents have been living in makeshift tents, the rural municipality officiating chief administrative officer Raj Bahadur Bhandari said. As many as four families are sharing a single tent, he said.
Himali Rural Municipality Chair, Govindra Bahadur Malla said the settlement has to be shifted to a safer location.
BAJURA, June 28: The incessant rainfall since the second week of this month has thrown life out of gear in the district. Scores of settlements are at risk due to floods and landslides triggered by the monsoon rain.
