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Flash floods kill 10 people in Bhutan, seven Lost in Nepal

KATHMANDU: Flash floods triggered by heavy rains washed out a distant mountain camp at Bhutan on Wednesday killing 10 people and injuring five, while flooding from neighbouring Nepal abandoned seven people lost, police said.
The Bhutan villagers, that was amassing cordeyceps, a parasite used in medication, were sleeping when the floodwaters hit after midnight.
Their camp nearby Laya, approximately 60 kilometers (37 kilometers ) north of the capital Thimphu, has been washed off, local press reported.
“our hearts are with all the people of Laya now, since we hear about the catastrophe that struck a bunch of cordeycep collectors at the highland,” Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering said in an declaration.
Two tanks were mobilised to prevent the wounded and rescuers in the armed forces were also going into the website that can only be attained after 11 hours of walking away from the closest road.
Villagers at Bhutan and Arabian Nepal visit high meadows annually to accumulate cordeycep that’s thought to have possible health benefits.
The villagers were camping by the side of a little flow between two little hills,” The Bhutanese newspaper stated.
“It’s thought they were washed out by the flooding coming down the flow”, it stated.
Back in Nepal, Home Ministry official Dil Kumar Tamang said seven people were missing after overnight rains in Sindhupalchowk district, which borders the Tibet region of China, triggered flash flooding in the Melamchi river inundating tons of houses.
“We’re collecting details of declines,” Tamang told Reuters.
Witnesses said many individuals in Melamchi had transferred to higher grounds for their possessions while military helicopters were rescuing those trapped within marooned homes.
Authorities urged people living across the Narayani river, that flows to India since Gandak, to stay awake as the lake has been flowing above the danger mark.
Nepal and Bhutan are lashed by heavy rains from the past few days as the yearly monsoon period beings.

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