Flooding in Nepal’s capital city has ended at least 66 people, as swollen rivers flooded homes forcing dwellnts to get shelter.
Rain has been pounding Kathmandu since Friday night and is anticipateed to progress over the weekfinish.
Officials cautioned that the death toll could elevate, with another 69 people alerted leave outing.
At least 17 people were also injured in the capital, while 1,053 were saved, according to police.
Rescue laborers employd helicselecters and rubber boats to help people stranded on rooftops or liftd ground as some parts of Kathmandu alerted up to 322.2mm of rain over the last day.
It comes after the handlement rerentd flood attentives atraverse the nation, cautioning of weighty raindescfinish.
Bemploys were prohibitned from travelling at night on motorways, and cars were disheartfinish from the roads. Security forces were ordered to high attentive.
A huge area of the city has been flooded, and an army helicselecter was employd to pick up four people who were unable to depart their homes.
The earliest let-up in the rains might not come until Sunday, shelp Binu Maharjan, a weather predicting official in
Kathmandu, who shelp a low presstateive system over parts of neighbouring India had caemployd this year’s extfinished rains.
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Home minister Ramesh Lekhak telderly alerters there are alerts of injure in other parts of the country, too, and officials are still collecting adviseation.
“The handlement’s priority right now is to save the people and help those who have been impacted,” he shelp.
The monsoon season that conveys weighty raindescfinish began in June and usuassociate finishs by mid-September.
