KATHMANDU: A total of 7,688 disaster incidents were recorded across Nepal between mid-April and November 1, claiming 402 lives and leaving 17 people missing, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA).
The Authority has documented various types of disasters during the period, including snakebites, landslides, floods, lightning strikes, fires, lake-related incidents, animal attacks, avalanches, storms, heavy rainfall, boat capsizings, forest fires, explosions, hailstorms and earthquakes.
Ram Bahadur KC, spokesperson and deputy secretary of the Authority, said the country recorded 1,735 landslides, 1,668 snakebite incidents, 1,641 fires, 593 heavy rainfall events, 537 storms, 466 floods, 417 animal attacks and 333 lightning incidents.
Similarly, the records include 192 forest fires, 79 lake-related incidents, six avalanches, nine earthquakes, four hailstorms, two boat capsizings, one explosion and five other incidents.
Of the 402 fatalities, 116 were caused by snakebites, 77 by landslides, 41 by floods, 36 by lightning strikes, 32 by fires, 27 by lake-related incidents, 23 by animal attacks, 19 by avalanches, 16 by storms, seven by heavy rainfall, five by boat capsizings, one by a forest fire, one by an explosion and five by other incidents.
According to the Authority, 2,529 people have been injured and 9,857 families displaced by the disasters during the reporting period.
The Authority also stated that the detailed damage assessment of the Bhotekoshi flood in Rasuwa on August 26 has not yet been entered into its information system. Therefore, the impact of that disaster is not reflected in the current statistics.
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