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Kathmandu Sunday October 07, 2001 Ashwin 21, 2058.
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Floods create havoc in East Nepal
Two killed, hundreds rendered homeless
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Oct 6 – Floods created havoc in the country’s
eastern part in the last couple of days as two persons died and hundreds of people have
been rendered homeless in many areas.
The off-season rain at the end of this week not only
inundated dozens of villages in the low-lying Terai region, it also disrupted the daily
life in many villages.
Floods on the Tawa and Khahare rivers swept away two persons
of in Udayapur and Solukhumbu districts. Eighteen-year-old Khim Bahadur Rai of Khugu
village of Solu was swept away when he was trying to cross the swollen Tawa Khola, our
reporter in Saptari said.
Mahanarayan Sah of Gamhariya village in Sarlahi faced the
same fate when he was about to cross the Khahare Khola in Solukhumbu. This 22-year-old was
returning to Solu as he had been running a clothing store in the hill district.
In Inaruwa of Sunsari district, floods damaged a culvert in
Bhantabari, which disrupted the traffic on the Mahendra Highway for 16 hours from Friday
evening, a report received from Inaruwa said. About 90 passenger buses and 60 container
trucks were stranded in Bhantabari for the whole night Friday.
Floods in many villages of this district have also damaged
crops planted in hundreds of bighas of land, which would ultimately affect the food
production later in the year.
In Biratnagar, the floods have affected many houses in the
main city area. Life in the city was disrupted for the second consecutive day as the
majority of the schools and shops remained closed.
More than 100 families in the city area have been given
shelter in Bakhari Primary School and Biratnagar Jute Mills after the inundation in their
homes made it difficult to live there, according to our reporter there. Many parts of this
industrial city remained inundated till Saturday evening.
Similarly, the floods on the Koshi River swept away 38 houses
in Gobargadha village and 21 in Hanumannagar village in Saptari while hundreds of people
in Wamangamakatti village were forced to take shelter elsewhere after the flood washed
away their homes, according to our reporter in Saptari.
Floods have also damaged more than 50 other houses in Rampura
Malhaniya village as the village was inundated with about four feet of water. It has also
affected other villages in the district like Sakarpura, Biphariya, Tilathi, Barsain,
Koiladi and Joginiya where hundreds of bighas of crops have been damaged.
Even the employees at the Saptari district customs office
near the Indian border had to leave the office due to the inundation and the police rescue
team has been sent to the site, the report quoted officials at the Hanumannagar police
station as saying. The floods have also disrupted the traffic on the Saptari- Kunauli road
due to the water logging.
Our reporter quoted Koshi Barrage Control Office as saying
that the water level on the Koshi River has been inconsistent.
Similarly, the floods have totally disrupted the normal life
in Mahottari district as more than 50 families have been left homeless, according to our
reporter in Jaleshwor.
The floods on the Ratu River have inundated Bakdi,
Mahadevpatti, Bela and Nainahi villages in Rautahat where 50 families left their homes and
took shelter in nearby villages. "The villagers could not sleep for the whole night
Friday as the water entered our homes," said Binod Paswan of Mahadevpatti village.
"It was knee deep water all over."
The Jaleshwor- Bardibas road, where a diversion was
constructed after the floods few days ago, has been blocked once again as the latest
floods swept away the diversion as well.
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