The locals in the vicinity of the river have left their homes and shifted elsewhere fearing havoc a sudden release of the blocked river can wreak. They have set up make-shift tents for temporary shelter. [break]
“We left after the water reached near our houses,” Krishna Bahadur Sapkota of Thumkodanda-9 said. “The water is just a couple of yards away now. The situation would be worse if the river gives way,” Sapkota added.
Sapkota, who had constructed his house around 30 meters away from the river 25 years ago, now is right by the side of river due to gradual land erosion. He has now left the shop at his home and built a hut about 50 meters uphill. “We have lost our hunger and sleep. We stay looking at the river from shop during the day and go inside the hut in the evening,” he said.
Secretary of Thumkodanda Village Development Committee (VDC) Rabi Mohan Sapkota said locals of Thulibesi, Jyangdu and Pulkomukh villages are under a greater threat. He said the locals have been advised to leave their houses.
“The threat this time is real,” VDC Secretary of Majhthana reasoned. Five persons have been missing in the landslide and their bodies have yet to be found.
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