Hanumante River inundates Bhaktapur settlements

BHAKTAPUR: The swollen Hanumante and other small rivers triggered by torrential rainfall for the past two days have inundated many residential areas in Bhaktapur Municipality and Surya Binayak Municipality.

The flood in Hanumante River submerged settlements in ward no. 1, 3 and 4 in Bhaktapur district.

The hospitals, schools and dozens of houses from Hanumanghat to Sallaghari areas were affected by the flooding, ward chair Ram Krishna Gora said.

Likewise, most of the places in Balkot and Dadhikot sites are inundated in Surya Binayak.

People’s representatives in the different ward said that properties worth millions were damaged though human causality was not reported. RSS