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Rains Swamp the Gandak River

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After days of torrential rain, the river rose to record-breaking levels in parts of Nepal and India.

Storms drenched Nepal’s mountainous Lumbini and Gandaki provinces with waves of torrential rain between September 24 and 27 . The deluge, arriving late in the monsoon season, triggered landslides and pushed the Gandak River, also called the Narayani, to record levels in both Nepal and India.

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