The patient search for possible survivors continues on Tuesday in the districts of Kathmandu covered in mud by floods and landslides of an unprecedented scale, which caused at least 209 dead in Nepal.
During the night from Friday to Saturday, the Nepalese capital and a good part of the east and center of the country were subjected to a deluge never seen for twenty years at the end of the summer monsoon season in South Asia. South.
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Devastated neighborhoods
Entire neighborhoods of Kathmandu were invaded by a tide of mud and debris of all kinds generated by the sudden and exceptional flood of the Bagmati river which crosses the valley.
At least 209 people have been killed in the country and 29 others are missing, Nepal’s Interior Ministry said.
“We have intensified air rescue for people who are sick or who still need to be brought to safety”specified the ministry.
More than 400 people rescued
More than 400 people were rescued in different districts on Monday. The Nepalese army said it had already carried out a total of more than 4,000 evacuations, notably with helicopters, motorboats and lifeboats. Many roads connecting Kathmandu to the rest of the country have been submerged in mud.
At least 35 of the victims were buried alive in three vehicles when a landslide covered one of these roads, south of the capital, police said. Bulldozers and other excavating machines were used to clear the roads.
The paralysis of the road network caused the first shortages of vegetables in the capital, the prices of which increased significantly.
