KATHMANDU, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The district headquarters of Darchula in far western Nepal is in panic as swollen Mahakali River due to Sunday night's rain has already swept away five office buildings, 20 public houses and 17 huts in a squatter settlement, police said Monday.
"There is panic here. More houses and offices are in danger of being swept away. A person has been swept away. We are relocating people to go to higher grounds," Kuber Singh Kadayat, deputy superintendent of police, told Xinhua over telephone. Local people, army and the police are engaged in rescue and rehabilitation works in the district headquarters of Darchula, which shares borders with China and India and sits on the banks of Mahakali River.
Saraswati Raikhola, 30, has gone missing since Monday morning after she left to collect logs near the banks of the Mahakali river, bordering India.
The swollen river has swept away the Education Training Center, District Forest Office, some six houses at Galfai, one clinic, the Tatopani Temple and four shops at Chapari, among other houses.
Also, a micro hydropower project on the Brahmadev Kalagadi River has been swept away, according to Kuber Kadayat. The patients at the district hospital have been moved to safe places, he added.
Monsoon rains cause flooding and loss of life and property regularly across this mountainous country.
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