Nepal closed schools for three days after landslides and floods caused by torrential rains over two days left 151 people dead and 56 missing, officials said on Sunday.
The floods stopped traffic and natural activities in the Kathmandu Valley, where authorities recorded 37 deaths in the region, which is home to about four million people and includes the capital.
The authorities stated that students and their parents are facing great difficulties in light of the damage to college and school buildings due to the rain.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Education said, “We called on the relevant authorities to close schools in the affected areas for three days.”
One of the country’s weather experts expected that the rains would decrease on Sunday in many areas and said that heavy rains were unlikely.
Television footage showed police rescuers wading through knee-deep water and pushing rubber boats to retrieve the bodies of 16 passengers of two buses swept away by a huge landslide at the site of a main road leading to the capital, Kathmandu.
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