Death toll in Nepal flooding reaches at least 100, dozens still missing
NPR Online NewsOCT 9 2024
At least 193 people were killed in Nepal after heavy rain triggered floods and landslides across the Himalayan nation over the weekend, local authorities said on Monday.
In a statement, police added that 31 people were still reported missing while 96 people were injured.
It followed record-breaking rainfall in the nation. Shanti Kandel, a meteorologist at Nepal’s Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, said: "The data recorded this [Sunday] morning by nine stations in Kathmandu is the highest in the past 54 years." Nepal began collecting such data in 1970.
While monsoon season brings floods and landslides to Nepal on a yearly basis, scientists said that climate change was exacerbating the problem as the rainfall has got worse year on year.