Budhi Gandaki river floods devastate central Nepal villages

All right, now shifting focus, central Nepal's Gorkha district is grappling with the devastating aftermath of a sudden flash flood along the Budigandaki River, where dozens of homes swept away and critical infrastructure crippled. Authorities are racing to support displaced families and locate those who are missing. Rescue operations are actively underway in central Nepal around the Budigandaki River, that swept away roughly 45 homes and damaged four bridges and three hydropower projects. Four helicopters have been deployed to assist emergency crews who have successfully rescued between 82 and 95 people including nine foreign nationals now despite these swift evacuation orders at least five residents remain missing while displaced families face acute shortages of shelter electricity and basic supplies the visual connectivity is severely disrupted authorities are racing against time to locate the missing and provide immediate humanitarian relief a flood victim narrated his ordeal whose house was swept away in the floods listen in i first went uphill and watched the third wave which was carrying sludge the water had already reached the suspension bridge over the budi gandaki river when i looked at my home i had already lost 90 percent of all hope my house had been swept away by the river officials from the national disaster agency reported that a dry landslide likely blocked the river or its tributary temporarily creating a sudden dam that eventually Some local reports from upstream residents suggested that an ice avalanche may have triggered the sudden surge of water. The catastrophe compounds Nepal's ongoing struggle following a massive glacial collapse on August 26, which killed over 1,400 people and heavy late September rains that claimed at least 21 lives.