Floods and landslides kill 14 in Nepal: police
AFP | Kathmandu
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Lashing rains in Nepal causing flash floods and landslides have killed at least 14 people across the country, with disaster teams searching for nine missing, police said yesterday.
Flooding in neighbouring India, as well as in downstream Bangladesh, has also caused widespread damage and impacted millions.
“Police are working with other agencies and locals to find the missing people,” Nepalese police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki told AFP.
Those killed and missing are in multiple locations.
Monsoon rains from June to September bring widespread death and destruction every year across South Asia, but the numbers of fatal floods and landslides have increased in recent years.
Experts say climate change and increased road construction are exacerbating the problem.
Parts of Nepal have been receiving heavy rainfall since Thursday, prompting disaster authorities in the Himalayan nation to warn of flash floods in multiple rivers.
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