Kathmandu, Sept 30, 2024 (AFP) - Nepal's urban poor count cost of 'nightmare' floods

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2024-09-30

When floodwaters submerged large swathes of Nepal's capital, Indra Prasad Timilsina was able to save the three cows that keep his family fed -- but everything else was claimed by the river. The slum he calls home in Kathmandu is one of several neighbourhoods devastated by pounding weekend rains that disproportionately hit the city's poorest and vulnerable inhabitants. The Bagmati river and its tributaries which criss-cross the Kathmandu valley,......

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