KATHMANDU (TDI): Amid rise in death toll, Nepal has shut schools as infrastructure in certain areas was badly affected as result of flooding and landslides in the last few days.
Officials said the other day that landslides and floods triggered by two days of heavy rain in Nepal killing more people clarifying that death toll raised to 170 people, with dozens more missing.
On the first day of flooding last week 66 people were reportedly killed.
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The educational institutions will remain closed for three days as real losses due the natural calamity has yet to be ascertain, and infrastructures are definitely damaged, officials told local media.
According to media reports, the floods brought traffic and normal activity to a standstill in the Kathmandu valley, yet domestic flights resumed in and out of Kathmandu on Sunday morning after cancellation of at least 150 departures.
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A report suggests that at least 35 of those killed were aboard in three vehicles and they were buried alive when earth from a landslide careened into a highway in Kathmandu.
TV footage showed that police and rescuers retrieving 16 bodies of passengers from two buses swept away by a massive landslide at a site on the route into Kathmandu.
Certain experts maintain that rise in Bagmati and other rivers crossed the danger mark and flooding was natural.
There are, however, now some signs of respite as the rains are easing in many places people in some areas started returning to their residencies in the capital to witness the wreckage of devastating floods.
However, authorities said students and their parents faced difficulties as university and school buildings damaged by the rains needed repair.
