by By Gopal Sharma
Kathmandu (Reuters) -the fatal flood in the Bhote Koshi river in Nepal who killed at least nine people and missed more than two dozen this week, was activated by draining a supraglacial lake in the Tibet region of Said Wednesday.
At least 19 people, including six Chinese employees at the Inland Container Depot established by Beijing, remain missing in Nepal after Tuesday’s floods who also washed away the ‘Friendship Bridge’ that connects Nepal and China.
The official news agency of China, the official news agency of Xinhua, has said that 11 people are not justified on the Chinese side of the mountainous border region.
The International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), based in Kathmandu, said that satellite images showed that the flood came from draining the lake north of Nepal’s Langtang Himal Range.
“This is based on the provisional analysis based on the available satellite images,” Sudan Maharjan, an external detection analyst and expert from Glaciers at ICIMOD, told Reuters.
A supraglacial lake is formed on the surface of glaciers, especially in areas covered with rubble. It often starts as small melting water ponds who gradually expand and sometimes merge to form a larger supraglacial more, experts say.
SASWATA SANYAL, another Icimod officer, said that such events increase in an “unprecedented” pace in the Hindu Kush -Mountains that is spread over Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.
“We have to go deeper into the triggers who result in step -by -step effects,” said Sanyal.
The monsoon of June-September causes mass floods and land shifts in the mountainous Nepal, what, say civil servants and experts, is vulnerable to the effects of climate change such as extreme weather patterns, inconsistent rainfall, floods, land shifts and floods of ijstschuivings.
This year’s early monsoon rains have caused fatal damage elsewhere in Nepal, where at least 38 people have been killed or missing since 29 May, according to data from the national disaster, reduction and management authority of the government.
(Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Edit by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
