Budhigandaki flash flood: five go missing, 437 security personnel mobilized for search, rescue

Kathmandu, Oct 11: Five persons including two women and three men have gone missing in flash floods in Budhigandaki river. The floods was triggered following a landslide occurred between Lokpa and Chumling of Chumnubri rural municipality in Gorkha district.

According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA), five residents of Chumchet of Chumnubri rural municipality-6 have been reported missing. 

The flood has washed away houses, suspension and motorable bridges, electric poles and telephone towers at different places in the district, said Spokesperson of the NDRRMA, Shanti Mahat. 

Seven to eight houses as well as under-construction Times Energy Pvt. Ltd at Dharche rural municipality-3 Salleri were swept away by the flood. 

Mahat added that the flood swept away an old suspension bridge linking Nyakchet and Sirdibas as well as a house there.