By Our Reporter
Every year, hundreds of people get killed, and maimed and several others go missing in floods and landslides. This year was also not different.
In the first month after monsoon entered Nepal on June 12, as many as 77 persons were killed in landslides, floods, lightning and snakebites, and the number further increased to 117 in three days.
Death toll from landslides, floods and lightning triggered by continuous monsoon rains reached 117 in 33 days from June 12 to July 14, according to Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA).
On Tuesday alone, the Authority registered five deaths in landslides in Syangja. As per the record, landslides took 98 lives, two by floods and 17 by lightning while 46 people were still missing in the landslides and flood-related incidents that took place in various parts of the country. Also, 130 people were injured in those natural disasters.
Besides, the landslides rendered many homeless in several districts, including Kaski, Bjhang, Gulmi, Sindhupalchowk and Sankhuwasabha.
This year, it was the landslide that caused more damages to life and property than the floods.
As per the latest casualty report of the Authority, the highest number of human loss took place in Myagdi’s landslide with 28 death cases.
Similarly, 10 died in landslides of Jajarkot, seven in Kaski, and three in Sindhupalchowk, last week.
Landslides also killed people in Syangja, Jajarkot, Bhajahng, Bajura, Kalikot and Tanahun districts.
Likewise, 10 persons were killed in landslides in Borekot Gaunpalika-4 and other villages of Jajarkot district after July 9. In the disaster, still, five people were missing.
In Kaski, so far, seven people have been killed in landslides occurred at Sarangkot and other villages with 13 missing cases. Five people were killed in landslides in Sarangkot, and one each in Hemja and Paitedanda of Kaski, according to the record.
In massive the landslides and floods in Sindhupalchowk, 20 persons went missing and in Sankhuwasabha 11 people were missing.
This season’s monsoon firstever landslide occurred at Durlung of Dhakalbari in Parbat district on June 14 early morning, claiming eight lives with two missing cases.
When floods and landslides kill hundreds of people every year, the government seems to have little to avoid human casualties and loss of property. Had the settlement prone to landslides been relocated to a safe place, the damages could be averted. But the government hardly thinks about this, and it always spends more energy in rescue and relief distribution works after the occurrences of the calamities.
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