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11 people died in the flood that occurred in Rasuwa on Tuesday due to the Himtal eruption in the upper watershed area. According to the central spokesperson of Nepal Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police Vinod Ghimire, with the discovery of the bodies of two people in the lower coastal area of Trishuli River, the death toll has risen to 11.
According to him, so far, 862 people have been rescued who were stranded in the flood and stopped when the road was blocked. He said that they were rescued and sent to a safe destination. So far, the body of one person has been identified and the other bodies have not been identified. Some of them are unrecognizable and some human parts have been found.
According to the information given by the police headquarters, 19 people are still missing. After the body of one policeman (Asai) Lal Bahadur Shrestha, who was missing from Rasuwa due to the flood, was cremated, the cremation was not possible due to the lack of identification of others. The body has been kept at the teaching hospital in Maharajgunj.
More than 1,300 security personnel have been mobilized to rescue those affected by the flood. The police said that the search for the missing persons is still ongoing. The flood swept away the Miteri bridge in the Nepal-China border area. Similarly, 24 containers, six trucks and 42 EV vehicles have been swept away. The road from Dhunche to Timure has been heavily damaged. Dam of Rasuwagadhi Hydro, yard of customs office has also been damaged .
The Department of Water and Meteorology has made a preliminary conclusion that the Himtal eruption in the upper Jathadhar area has caused flooding.
