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Rain-triggered floods, landslides claim 60 in Nepal

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Kathmandu: Floods and landslides caused by incessant rains in Nepal have till now claimed 60 lives and left 38 others injured, police said on Sunday.
Thirty five people are reported to be missing in the rain-related incidents that have thrown normal life out of gear in central and eastern parts of the country. Heavy rainfall since Thursday has hit more than 25 districts, affecting 10,385 households.
Nepal Army and police personnel have so far rescued 1,104 people from several places across the country with 185 alone from Kathmandu.
According to Nepal Police, a total of 27,380 police personnel have been deployed across the country for search and rescue operations.
The Flood Forecasting Section (FFS) said that monsoon is active and the rainfall will continue for two to three days in most places across the country, The Himalayan Times reported.
The Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD) warned the public to remain on high alert and said that air and road traffic could be affected due to low visibility.
Meanwhile, weather experts have attributed the heavy rainfall in such short duration to climate change. The Kathmadu Post reported that over the last three days, the country has witnessed heavy rainfall in an indication of the changing rainfall pattern.
The country is receiving more rainfall in a short duration of time–an abnormal phenomenon that is slowly becoming a new normal.
“There has been a change in precipitation in recent years. The intensity of rainfall has gone up,” Madhukar Upadhya, a watershed practitioner and climate change expert, told The Kathmandu Post.
“We are experiencing a high intensity of rainfall in short durations,” he said. (PTI)

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