Biratnagar, July 26
Inundation, flooding and landslides resulting from torrential rainfall have displaced 849 families in Morang district. Police put the number of displaced people at 1,800.
DSP Yogendra Singh Thapa, spokesperson for Morang district police office, said rains continuing for one-and-a-half weeks have caused inundation in several parts of the district and caused displacement.
The worst affected are residents of Madhumalla 4 and 5, and Hasandaha 3 and 5, according to Thapa. Local people have complained that several places have gone under water because authorities at Biratnagar submetropolis did not bother to build a well-functioning drainage.
In southeastern Morang, a flooded Bakraha Stream swept away the Biratnagar-Rangeli-Urlabari road on Sunday, bringing traffic movement to a complete halt, Rangeli area police office said. Floodwater entered hundreds of houses in Dainiya, forcing the victims to live in temporary tents by the roadside.
The Bakraha caused the collapse of a dike in Betini, Madhumalla VDC-5, and then gushed into two dozen houses.
Police informed that affected people have been shifted with their belongings to their relatives’ places.
In Jayanagar, Hasandaha VDC-3, hundreds of houses went under water when the Bakraha gushed into the settlement after an embankment collapsed. Floodwater from the same stream caused inundation in a number of villages like Amardaha and Govindapur, police said.
And a flooded Chisang Stream swept away temporary house and shed belonging to Dayaram Urab, in Keraun VDC-9, apart from causing erosion in four kattha of his paddy fields. The havoc has displaced the Urab family comprising six members.
In western Biratnagar, the Keshaliya Stream entered Bakhari, Biratnagar submetropolis-16, and inundated dozens of houses there. Police have rescued 116 people from the site and shifted them to the building of Sri Lower Secondary School.
