Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have claimed at least 70 lives in southern Nepal and displaced thousands. Many plains districts in eastern Tarai have been inundated following heavy rainfall. Locals have abandoned their homes and shifted to temporary shelters. After three days of torrential rain, the weather is said to be improving in some of the affected parts of the country.
Photojournalist Bikram Rai who was in Saptari and Janakpur brings us some of the dramatic glimpses of the Nepal Flood.
Floods triggered by incessant rainfall inundates paddy fields in Saptari.
Villagers wade through a flooded road in Saptari.
Villagers make their way to their homes through a flooded street in Saptari.
Villagers in Saptari wait outside their homes. The road in front of their house was swept away.
A village in Janakpur is inundated following heavy rainfall.
People in a village in Janakpur try to salvage their belongings.
A little girl in Janakpur salvages kitchen utensils from her home.
A woman stands outside her house in Janakpur.
The flood swept away the bridge in Saptari.
Locals villagers load relief materials onto a boat for flood victims.
A village in Saptari lies abandoned after the floods.
A family in Saptari after the floods entered and submerged their home.
A school in Saptari closes after the floods.
Villagers have shifted to temporary shelters along the road as the floods submerged their villages in Saptari.
Villagers have shifted to temporary shelters on either side of the road.
Survivors wait in makeshift-shelters in Saptari.
A man builds a temporary shelter in Saptari.
The salvaged belongings left out to dry in Saptari.