Floods, landslides kill 15 in India and four in Nepal as rivers rise — SkimNews
Get the Energy newsletter
Daily energy & climate — solar, EVs, oil, the policy fights and tech bets shaping the transition. Free.
- Uttar Pradesh recorded 15 deaths, 117 damaged houses, and rainfall 19 times its normal level in 24 hours across 63 districts as of Sept 26, with five people also injured.
- Nepal reported four deaths in Baglung district after a landslide buried a house while three children and a woman slept, while 10 workers went missing when an avalanche hit the base camp of the 7,126m Himlung Himal.
- Nepal's disaster agency warned of flash floods in 49 of the country's 77 districts, with more than half facing high flood risk as major rivers and tributaries continued to rise.
- Water Resources Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha said flooding on the Rahuganga River damaged the structure and transmission-line towers of a 40-megawatt hydropower project, with a technical team mobilised for repairs.
- India's Central Water Commission placed 30 river-monitoring stations across seven states in a "severe situation," with the Ganga, Gandak, Kosi, Bagmati, and Narmada all above danger levels.
- Nepal's Communications Minister Bikram Timilsinha said floods and landslides damaged optical fibres and power supplies, disrupting telecommunications in parts of the country.
Why it matters: Uttar Pradesh receiving 19 times its normal daily rainfall and Nepal issuing flash-flood alerts in 49 of 77 districts simultaneously shows how concentrated monsoon bursts are now simultaneously stressing Himalayan hydropower and telecom infrastructure and the Gangetic floodplain, with a 40-MW project already structurally damaged.
Ask SkimNews
