The district authorities
said that the heaviest casualties occurred in the Pyuthan district in central
Nepal, where 15 bodies were recovered from areas affected by landslides.
No fewer than 39 people
were killed in Nepal in landslides and flooding caused by heavy rain,
authorities said on Wednesday.
In the Palpa district three
members of the same family were killed by a landslide and in the Jhapa district
in eastern Nepal, five people were killed when they drowned in a flooded river.
The most recent death was
that of an infant who was buried by a landslide in the Myagdi district on
Tuesday.
The Nepalese Home Ministry
has said the death toll will rise.
Report says Monsoon in
Nepal, which lasts from July to September, causes disasters in the form of
landslides and flooding every year.
Nepal’s mountains have been
particularly brittle recently and more prone to landslides after heavy rainfall
due to the earthquake of 2015.
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