Jammu-Srinagar highway blocked due to landslides
The strategic Srinagar-Jammu national highway was closed for traffic on Thursday due to landslides at different places in the Ramban district.
At least 15 people were killed and many reported missing after a heavy flood and landslides hit Nepal, according to officials on Friday.
Over 200 places across the country have been identified as susceptible to monsoon-induced disasters, while teams were on hand to distribute relief and conduct search and rescue operations, Bed Nidhi Khanal, chief of the Nepal Emergency Operation Center, told Efe news.
According to the home ministry, 15 people have been killed, while six others were missing and 13 injured as incessant rains that caused landslides and triggered flash floods in rivers originating in the Himalayas.
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“We have evacuated more than 150 people and are on the standby for rescue in different areas,” army spokesman Bigyan Dev Pandey said.
Parts of the capital Kathmandu have been left submerged under floodwaters.
Among the victims, there were three people from the same family who were killed when the wall of a house collapsed in Kathmandu, while three others were killed in a landslide in Khotang district in the east.
Archana Shrestha, spokesperson for the department of hydrology and meteorology said that there was a chance of heavy rainfall across the country until Sunday.
Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli has expressed his condolences to the bereaved families who have lost their loved ones in the flooding and landslides triggered by the incessant rainfall.
He took to Twitter and expressed his grief and said, “I offer deep condolences to the families who lost their members in the disaster”.
The annual monsoon rains, which normally start in June and continue through September often result in casualties in Nepal.
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