Birtamod, July 25 -- On Thursday night, Kankai River breached its embankment at Raigaun in Jhapa Rural Municipality Ward No. 7. The rain-swollen river damaged around 350 metres of the embankment and changed its course towards Kankai settlement.

On Sunday night, the river had damaged its embankment at Sadakbari in Ward No. 2 of the same rural municipality. More than 100 houses were inundated and 1,000 bighas of paddy fields were damaged by flood waters in Sadakbari and Milanbasti.

"More than half the total area of the rural municipality is at high risk of soil erosion and inundation after the floodwaters breached the embankment in Raigaun," said the rural municipality Chairman Jaya Narayan Sah. "Ward Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 7 will be waterlogge...