By Gopal Sharma
Katmandú (Reuters) -Heavy rains caused landslides and sudden floods that block roads, eliminate bridges and killed at least 47 people from Friday in Nepal, authorities said Sunday.
Thirty -five people were killed in separated land landslides in the Ilam district in the east that borders India, said Kalidas Dhauboji, spokesman for the armed police force.
They occupied nine people after being dragged by floods and three others were killed in rays in other parts of Nepal, he added.
“They are making rescue efforts for missing people,” said Shanti Mahat, spokesman for the National Authority for Disaster Risk Reduction and Nepal Management Authority.
On the other side of the border, in the Eastern Indian hill region of Darjeeling in West Bengal, at least seven people were killed due to landslides after heavy rains, according to local media reports.
“Seven bodies of the rubble have already been recovered. We have information about two more people. Work is also being done to recover their bodies,” said Abhishek Roy, an official of the Darjeeling District Police on Sunday, according to a publication of the Indian News Agency Ani on the Social Network Platform X.
Several roads have been blocked by landslides and dragged by floods, which extend to hundreds of passengers, authorities said.
“National flights are largely interrupted, but international flights are normally operating,” said Rinji Sherpa, spokesman for the Katmandu airport, the largest international entrance door in Nepal.
In southeastern Nepal, the Koshi River, which causes fatal floods in the eastern state of Bihar India almost every year, flowed above the level of danger, said a district official.
Dharmendra Kumar Mishra, district governor of the district of Sunsari, said that the 56 Sluice doors of Koshi had opened to drain the water compared to approximately 10 to 12 during a normal situation, and added that the authorities had banned vehicular traffic on the bridge.
In Katmandu with hill rings, several rivers have flooded roads and flooded many houses, cutting the capital full of temples from the rest of the country by road.
Hundreds of people die every year in landslides and sudden floods that are common in Nepal mostly mountainous during the Monzón season, which normally begins in mid -June and continues until mid -September.
Climate officials said the rains probably lashed out at the Nation of the Himalayas until Monday and the authorities said they were having the “maximum care and precautions” to help the people affected by the disaster.
(Gopal Sharma report in Katmandú; additional reports of Jayshree P Upadhyay in Mumbai; Lincoln FEAST and Jamie Freed edition)
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