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Floods and landslides kill 23 in Nepal KATHMANDU, Monday (AFP) Five days of incessant rain have caused heavy flooding and landslides in Nepal's southeastern and southwestern regions killing 23 people, local officials said Sunday. "Eight people were killed in a mudslide at Pyuthan district, seven in Ramechhap and eight in floods in Makwanpur district," a district official said. A Home Ministry official said 34 districts had been affected, 13 of them seriously. "The heavy flooding in over a dozen major Himalayan rivers have inundated several thousand acres (hectares) of farmland and has hit more than 100,000 people hard," an official of the Department of Irrigation and Flood Control said. Heavy flooding of the Koshi river was threatening the India-built Koshi dam, which if it collapsed would pose serious danger to downstream villagers in Nepal, the Indian state of Bihar and to Bangladesh, an official said. |
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