Kathmandu, Nov 2: Between mid-April and November 1, a total of 7,688 disaster incidents have occurred throughout the country. Sadly, 402 people have died, and 17 are still missing in these incidents.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority has documented a range of disasters, including snakebites, landslides, floods, lightning strikes, fires, lake-related incidents, animal attacks, avalanches, hurricanes, heavy rainfall, boat capsizings, forest fires, explosions, hailstorms, and earthquakes.
Ram Bahadur KC, the spokesperson and deputy secretary of the authority, highlighted that during this period, there were 1,735 landslides, 1,668 snakebites, 1,641 fires, 593 heavy rain events, 537 storms, 466 floods, 417 animal attacks, and 333 lightning incidents.
In addition, the report includes 192 forest fires, 79 lake incidents, six avalanches, nine earthquakes, four hailstorms, two boat capsizings, one explosion, and five other incidents.
The authority also noted that 116 individuals lost their lives due to snakebites, 77 from landslides, 41 from floods, 36 from lightning strikes, 32 from fires, 27 from lake incidents, 23 from animal attacks, 19 from avalanches, 16 from storms, seven from heavy rain, five from boat capsizings, one from a forest fire, one from an explosion, and five from other incidents.
According to the authority’s statistics, 2,529 people have been injured, and 9,857 families have been displaced as a result of these disasters. Furthermore, the authority mentioned that the detailed damage report concerning the Bhotekoshi flood in Rasuwa on August 26 has not yet been added to the system, so this data is currently missing.
