A government official said on Thursday, landslides as well as floods impact by several weeks of monsoon rains have destroyed at least 50 people in mainly remote parts of Nepal.

Lakshmi Prasad Dhakal, chief of National Emergency Operation Centre, which monitors natural disasters in Nepal expressed, hitherto, 50 people from across the country have been killed by landslides and floods. Moreover, Mr Dhakal mentioned that the death toll is quite possibly to elevate, accompanied by some 19 people still missing subsequent to floods collide with mostly farming communities in the country's southern plains as well as remote western hills. Mr Dhakal added that they are forming a committee commanded by the minister for physical planning, which will present a report on how to reinforce the infrastructure destroyed by the landslides as well as floods.  

(AW:Samrat Biswas)