Post-disaster Urgency

High-intensity precipitation over a short period of time led to floods and landslides causing massive devastation in Koshi and Bagmati Provinces on Friday and Saturday. It was the heaviest rain the capital valley had witnessed in the last 54 years. Most of country received torrential rains and ensuing floods and landslides, which threw lives of the people out of gear throughout the country. Hit hard by this unprecedented natural disaster, major highways and roads across the country have been partially or completely obstructed from Saturday onwards breaking their connectivity with Kathmandu.