Seven houses have been destroyed after flood water entered a settlement in Ekatangar, Tikapur on Monday.

According to the Tikapur Red Cross, seven houses of Kamaiyas (bonded labourers) were inundated after an irrigation canal burst on the north-east of Tikapur.

Around 25 displaced families are taking shelter at Naya Nepal Primary School, said police. DSP Gautam Mishra of the Area Police Officer in Tikapur said a majority of houses have been waterlogged in Gidarpur, Phadela, Jawalpur villages due to poor drainage. Around 100 people have been displaced by the floods, police added.

In Pyuthan, vehicular movement along the Bhringri-Sorgadwari road has been obstructed due to landslides at Rumale area for the past two weeks. Local Ishwori Regmi said they have faced hardship after landslides also blocked Bijubar and Badula roads.

In Taplejung, a house belonging to Bir Bahadur Labung and Jiban Labung near Mitlung area collapsed on Monday.

The house was inundated after a landslide dammed the Tamor river at Sawadin VDC in the district.

In Kanchanpur, the raging Mahakali river burst its banks at four places between Bhujela and Dodhara Chandani area. Engineer Karbir Saud of the People’s Embankment Programme in Mahendranagar said the flood had already swept away levee in four different places and the rising water levels since Saturday has put locals of Bhujela at high risk.

Three persons drown

KATHMANDU: Three persons were swept away by swelling streams on Tuesday. Sixty-year-old man and his son of Bhrikuti Municipality in Kapilvastu district drowned as they were trying to cross the flooded Gudarud stream, according to Area Police Office in Gorusinghe. In another incident, a 10-year-old school student died after being swept away by a rivulet in Gulmi district on Tuesday. Police said the body of Subash Bhandari, the fourth grader of Adarsha Boarding School at Resunga-4, was found 500 metres downstream.