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Decades of embankment failures fuel fears along Koshi River

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KATHMANDU: At 3 a.m. on Tuesday, a devastating flood from the Lhende River—originating at the border of Gosainkunda Rural Municipality-1 in Rasuwa and the Tibet Autonomous Region (Xichang), China—caused significant destruction in Nepal. The flood, triggered by the bursting of a glacier-fed debris dam (known locally as Himot), unleashed a torrent of soil, sand, rocks, […]

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