Search, rescue intensified in Rasuwa’s Timure
RASUWA:- Timure, a market place in Gosaikund Rural Municipality-2 along the side of the Bhotekoshi river, is now desolate due to the flash flood that washed away the settlement on August 26.
A team of the Armed Police Force, Nepal, (APF) is deployed for search and rescue operation in this flood-hit area although the area has lost road connectivity and communication network.
Over 2100 people are reported to have gone out of contact after the flood.
APF has been continuing and intensifying search and rescue operation here despite adverse geographical situation and limited resources.
So far, the APF has recovered 104 bodies from this area.
A 30-mmeber team under the command of DSP Pradip Rai is stationed for search and rescue in Timure.
DSP Rai said medical professionals and technicians from APF hospital are also in the rescue team.
Meanwhile RSS adds that 133 bodies have been collected from various places of Rasuwa following the catastrophic Bhotekoshi flash flood occurred a week ago.
Deputy Superintendent of Police, Ashok Thapa, shared information that 104 bodies were collected from Timure alone, while 18 from Syabrubenshi and Ronga area, and 11 from Betrawati area. As the dead bodies began emanating stench, efforts are underway to take these to Bidur of Nuwakot for the management, Thapa added.
Meanwhile, the rescuers have faced difficulty in scouring inside Rasuwagadhi Hydropower (111-MW) tunnel because the debris and sludge deposited into the tunnel were getting cemented, according to Brigadier General Prajjwal Rana from Brigade-6 of Nepali Army.
However, rescue works in the Chilime Hydropower Project (20-MW) at Syabrubenshi is underway, the Nepali Army added.
