00:00A fresh threat of the flood water coming toward the populated areas of Nepal has come in.
00:06Ashutosh Mishra is joining me live from Nepal in one of these areas.
00:09Ashutosh, where are you presently?
00:11And I hope you're not in the danger zone.
00:13What are you hearing?
00:14There's a second threat that has come in.
00:17Where are you?
00:18Are evacuations being done?
00:23Well, this is the last point towards Kathmandu where the road has been washed away.
00:27I'm in Nuwakoti, it's the Dhongi area.
00:29And right, you see all the heavy machinery in Pooja are moving back.
00:33They were all in the road connectivity operations.
00:36These machines were just 300 meters where I am.
00:38They were already restoring the connectivity.
00:41Even the officials, police vehicles, everyone is moving in a huge number.
00:45All these areas, eventually these shops were operational.
00:47Everything now has been shut down.
00:49So police issued a warning that any moment from now since there were glacier formation,
00:54the lake formation and one of such lake has breached already.
00:57There was a warning on the Bhotekashi River and there is another river that around 2 million cubic meter formation
01:05of lake.
01:05That was eventually one of them has literally broke.
01:08And now the Trishuli River, which is the key factor of this massive flooding and devastation across the Trishuli terrain,
01:14is now reaching out and once this area, even official even said that this could be even five times higher.
01:20So we should be going as high as around 100 to 200 feet from the existing level.
01:25So we already marked to ourselves on a little higher edge.
01:27These machineries who were on the operation have come down.
01:29In fact, the road that goes further towards Trishuli and Anuha Kota have been blocked, barricaded by the police officials.
01:37No one is allowed.
01:38Constantly vigil is being made.
01:39Constantly alarm is being issued.
01:41The police is making siren and awareness and, you know, alerting people.
01:44And there's a massive operation now underway.
01:46Because any moment from now, it could again bring a mayhem already.
01:50The, you know, the country which is affected by this devastation is yet to recover.
01:56And then we see within three days, that's the second, you know,
01:59What is the scale of tragedy?
02:00And you've been to Nepal several times for different reports.
02:04There have been political issues though.
02:06What level are we looking at of the tragedy there in Nepal, Ashutosh?
02:15Tragedy, since we see already, Puja, in three days, the number is reaching near 500.
02:19Missing persons every day are adding to, you know, in hundreds, not in just a couple of dozen.
02:24And clearly, if I could just see what had happened in March 2015,
02:28though it was mostly largely affected in the valley of Kathmandu, that was affected.
02:32Here, the geographical terrain in the mountain areas,
02:35and these mountain areas are around the year heavily crowded.
02:39Often it is for the religious pilgrimage, for the monsoon yatra,
02:41on other occasions for the tourist, international tourists.
02:44This is one of the most beautiful terrain of Nepal.
02:47And Indochina border, again, that's a logistic, you know,
02:50the road transport for Nepal and China both as well.
02:54So, in a pocket which was flooded by thousands,
02:56we still have the number only in hundreds.
02:58Many of the people still missing, and many do not even know who all are missing.
03:02I see those emotion and commotion at the rescue basis where the people are being brought.
03:06So, number could be way much higher.
03:08All these markets, bazaar, kasbah, gaon,
03:11there were, you know, there were thousands of people living.
03:13And since all have turned in a ghost town, clearly it will take time.
03:17But for now, their officials, their first priority is for the search, rescue and evacuate.
03:24Once this operation completes, only then they will be able for the restoration and the relief operation.
03:30And gradually, over the days and weeks,
03:32probably the real number of this scale of disaster will come out, Pooja.
03:36Listen, my friend, you stay safe.
03:38Thank you for your ground reports.
03:39Looking forward to more voices.
03:41And we are putting out all the ground reports that Ashutosh is sending us from Ground Zero.
03:45There's another flood alert.
03:47Now, this time, at least there's an alert already that's coming,
03:50which means evacuations can be done.
03:52Alternate arrangements can be made as well.
03:53Rachel Kill.
03:53Welcome to the noch.
03:53Talk to the next day.
