Another flash flood hits Nepal, homes swept away and villages evacuated

Another flash flood has hit Nepal, sweeping away houses and bridges and damaging a hydroelectric plant along a river in the north-central part of the country.

The army said it had rescued 49 people from the flood-hit areas, but five are still missing, the BBC writes online. The flood is believed to have been caused by a landslide upstream of the Budhi Gandaki river in Gorkha district, a major waterway near the capital Kathmandu. Several videos on social media show houses and sheds swept away by the raging river flowing between high mountains. It is not yet clear how many of the small villages in the mountainous area have been affected. So far, four bridges and nearly two dozen houses have been swept away, as has a camp at a hydroelectric plant along the river.

Nepal is still trying to recover from the catastrophic floods and landslides that hit its border towns with Tibet two months ago, sweeping away thousands of homes, destroying crucial energy infrastructure and leaving thousands dead and missing.