Heavy casualties are feared aft a monolithic flash flood successful parts of nothern Nepal washed distant villages and damaged infrastructure, including a hydropower dam.
The flood deed aboriginal connected Wednesday successful Rasuwa, an country northbound of Nepal's superior Kathmandu, which borders the Himalayan portion of Tibet.
Officials judge the flood was caused by melting snowfall that had fallen into the Bhote Koshi stream that flows from Tibet to Nepal.
Several districts downstream are connected precocious alert and portion officials expect the harm to beryllium severe, it is excessively aboriginal to estimation the scale, Rasuwa main territory serviceman Narendra Pariyar told BBC Nepali.
Twelve radical person been rescued truthful acold and hunt and rescue operations are continuing, service spokesperson Rajaram Basnet.
Nepal's catastrophe absorption authorization called connected radical surviving adjacent stream banks successful susceptible areas to stay alert and instrumentality precautions.
"Work has started to instrumentality indispensable steps successful coordination with the aesculapian team, scouts, and Red Cross," Prime Minister Balendra Shah said successful a societal media post, aft holding an exigency gathering to instrumentality banal of the situation.
Authorities said 13 officers from the equipped constabulary unit are missing from 2 posts successful Rasuwa district, and they person not been capable to interaction dozens of different constabulary officers.
Rasuwa which is on Nepal's main trading way with China, besides saw deadly flooding past twelvemonth that killed 18 radical aft a glacier burst connected the Chinese broadside of the border.
Officials person told the BBC that they judge the standard of Wednesday's catastrophe exceeds past year's floods.
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