At least 14 people have died as a result of lightning, flooding, and landslides caused by Nepal’s intense monsoon storms, a disaster official reported on Thursday.
Every year, South Asia experiences significant mortality and destruction due to the monsoon rains, which last from June to September. However, in recent years, there have been more devastating floods and landslides.
The issue is being made worse, according to experts, by rising road building and climate change.
Four people—two of them children—were buried alive after three homes in the Lamjung district, west of Kathmandu, were swept away in a landslide on Wednesday, according to disaster official Dijan Bhattarai, who spoke to AFP.
Other landslides killed four more people, while five people died after being struck by lightning, Bhattarai said, a spokesman at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority.
One more person drowned in floods, he said.
Six others have died in floods since the monsoon began this month.
