More than 1,600 houses in Bajura at high risk of water-induced disasters

Residents of the affected settlements have urged authorities to move them to safer locations.

As many as 1,616 households are at high risk of water-induced disasters in Bajura, a hill district of Sudurpaschim Province, officials say. The landslides and floods triggered by unseasonal October rains two weeks ago further exposed the settlements in the district to possible disasters.