THE WEEK IN PICTURES

April 6, 2019 18:40 pm

The week in pictures for the week March 31-April 6.

On March 31, 2019, Bara and Parsa were hit by the country’s first wind storm killing 28 and injuring more than 700 people. Pheta rural municipality of Bara was worst hit by the wind storm. Since then, both the federal and the local government have pledged support to treat the injured and rebuild homes.

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BARA, April 4: The victims of Balirampur-13 are yet to receive food and non-food item assistance as the local body is yet to open the Balirampur-Chotkiphulbariya road section.

KATHMANDU, April 2: Nepal Communist Party’s co-chairperson, Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that he’d provide Rs. 500,000 to family members of the deceased.

BARA, April 1: The Nepal government will bear treatment cost and rebuild infrastructure that was destroyed by the wind storm yesterday night, according to Prem Kumar Rai, secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs.

KATHMANDU, April 1: A 30-knot wind storm known as gale, probably the first in Nepal, hit Bara and Parsa districts killing 28 and injuring over 500 people, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology.  At 30 knots, gale, a classification of wind speed according to the Beaufort scale, blows at 15 meters per second or 55.56 kilometre per hour.

KATHMANDU, April 1: Twenty-five among those killed when a massive storm struck several villages of Bara and Parsa districts on Sunday evening have been identified.