Nepal, Aug. 8 -- Last month's flash flood in Tibet's Lhende River resulted in unfathomable destruction downstream, particularly in Nepal's Rasuwa district. Besides killing nine people, it swept away the Miteri bridge, a vital trade route along the Nepal-China border, as well as loaded trucks and vehicles. It also ravaged an under-construction container depot inland, the barrage of the 111-megawatt Rasuwagadhi Hydropower Project and several other hydropower projects. That is not all. It cut off the entire section of the Rasuwagadhi-Timure area and also disrupted electricity, telephone and internet services. Even in 2024, as per preliminary estimates, Nepal lost $32 billion due to unprecedented rainfall during the monsoon.

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