Koshi inundates dozen villages in Sunsari
More than 30,000 villagers in a dozen VDCs in Sunsari district including Paschim Pipara, Haripur, Madhuvan, Kuswaha and Shripur have been displaced due to inundation caused by Koshi River. Closure of most of the doors in the Koshi barrage caused the flooding in the villages, reports say. In the initiatives of the local administration, 40 doors out of 56 have been opened to give outlet to the water. The locals began to flee the villages after 8 p.m. Sunday as the water started to swamp the villages.