'I have never seen such devastation': At least 59 dead, 44 missing in terrible floods in Nepal
Plus de 3 000 membres des forces de sécurité ont été déployés pour les opérations de sauvetage. XinHua – Sulav Shrestha
Au moins 59 personnes sont décédées dans les inondations meurtrières qui touchent le Népal depuis vendredi.
Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 59 people in Nepal and left 44 missing, police said Saturday.
"It's scary"
Faced with heavy rains that began Friday, authorities had warned of flash floods in several rivers: "So far, there are 59 dead, 36 injured and 44 missing", Nepal police spokesman Dan Bahadur told AFP Karki.
More than 200 cases of flooding and landslides have been recorded so far, he said. Rivers in the capital Kathmandu have burst their banks, inundating homes near the riverbanks.
60 ~p> "It's scary. “I have never seen such devastation,” said Mahamad Shabuddin, 34, who owns a motorcycle repair shop near the river. Bagmati in flood.
Some survivors took refuge on the roofs of buildings, others fled by wading through the brackish water .
The landslides blocked several highways, leaving hundreds of people stranded: "When I went out in the middle of the night, the water was up to my shoulders. “My entire truck is under water,” said Hari Malla, a 49-year-old truck driver.
The number of deadly floods and landslides has increased in recent years. MAXPPP – Sunil Sharma
Heavy force deployed to rescue residents
More than 3,000 security personnel have been deployed to assist in the rescue operation using helicopters and motor boats.
“Police are working with other agencies and residents to rescue and trace the missing people,” said Basanta Adhikari, a spokesman for Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority.
All domestic flights from Kathmandu were cancelled from Friday evening, affecting more than 150 departures.
The June-September monsoons bring death and destruction across South Asia each year, but the number of deadly floods and landslides has increased in recent years. Experts say climate change has made them more frequent and intense.
A landslide in July in Chitwan district sent two buses and their 59 passengers into a river. Three people managed to escape alive and authorities were only able to recover twenty bodies in perilous rescue conditions.
More than 220 people have died this year in Nepal in natural disasters linked to the rains.
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