Baniyani, June 20 (RSS): As many as 13 families were displaced and 25 households inundated when a flood-fed Ratuwa river in Jhapa eroded human settlement.
A spokesperson at District Police
Office, Jhapa, SP Basanta Pathak shared that the flood-triggered erosion nearby
human settlement at Damak municipality-7 caused the displacement of
households.
Among the displaced families are of
Khadga Limbu, Rajesh Kisku, Bishnu Limbu, Manoj Maskey, Subash Limbu, Bharati
Tamang, Ramkumari Lawati, Lakpa Sherpa, Goma Tamang, Dik Bahadur Gurung,
Suryaman Acharya, Deepak Gurung and Bimal Kisku.
As informed, Nepal Police and
locals had teamed up to rescue the families. The erosion caused damage to
their houses.
Likewise, flood that occurred in the
same river had sneaked into the human settlement at Gauradaha municipality-6,
Tanguwa settlement this morning.
The flood had waterlogged 25
households of the settlement, police said.