Flooding causes government building to collapse into Nepal river
A government building in Baglung, western Nepal, collapsed into the Daram River after flooding destabilised the ground. Officials removed documents and computers before the collapse, and no one was injured. Nepal’s disaster agency said floods and landslides had killed at least 27 people in recent days.
A government building in western Nepal collapsed into a river after flooding left it standing on an unstable ledge, according to the BBC report supplied. The building in Baglung fell into the Daram River on Sunday, September 27. Witnesses recorded the collapse.
Local ward chair Tej Thapa said officials had removed important documents and computers from the building before it fell. No one was injured. The collapse occurred amid flooding and landslides in Nepal.
The country’s national disaster agency said at least 27 people had been killed in recent days. The report said the latest deaths came only weeks after a flash flood along the Nepal-Tibet border killed 1,400 people and left thousands more missing. The supplied material does not provide further details about that earlier disaster.
It also does not say whether nearby residents were evacuated, how much damage was caused beyond the government building, or what authorities plan to do with the site. The incident illustrates the immediate damage caused by unstable ground and flooding in the affected area, but the source does not provide an assessment of the wider infrastructure impact.
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