Kailali, Aug. 3 -- On Saturday morning, Nirmala Shahi was cooking a meal for her family of four on a stove she had salvaged from her flooded house in Krishnanagar in Bhajani Municipality, Kailali. The family has pitched a tent on the side of the Postal Highway after escaping from their flooded settlement four days ago.

"Our house is still waterlogged. My husband waded through waist-high water to see if there were any food grains left in the house," said Shahi. "He found a wet sack of rice and brought it here. I let it dry out in the sun yesterday and that's what I'm cooking today for us to eat."

Krishnanagar in Bhajani had been experiencing heavy rainfall since Tuesday night, causing the Pathariya and Kanda rivers to burst their embankm...