With the extended monsoon season this year, floods and landslides are still prevalent in many parts of Nepal.

As many as 8,700 households have been affected due to inundation caused by flash floods in Banke district.

According to Topendra Bahadur KC, Banke Assistant Chief District Officer, 2131 flood-affected people have been rescued from 37 wards of the eight local levels.

People living in Rapti Sonari, Narainapur and Duduwa rural municipalities, the settlements in downstream of the Rapti River, have been affected the most due to the flooding and inundation.

Meanwhile, more than 1,400 houses have been affected by the flood on the Karnali River at Rajapur municipality and Geruwa rural municipality in Bardiya district following heavy rainfall since the last week.

Similarly, the flood has also damaged paddy crops in the flood-hit areas this year too. However, no human casualty has been reported in the incident yet.

The monsoon season which usually ends on October 2 has been extended this year for two more weeks. Meteorologist at Meteorological Forecasting Division Heera Bhattarai said that the weather will improve across the country in the next two days.

Chief of health section at Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolis, Ram Bahadur Chand, has informed that the flood displaced had complained of health problems in addition to dengue risk.

Owing to incessant rainfall, people are intrigued by the fear of both monsoon-triggered natural calamities and getting infected by dengue. A lot of people are on verge of dengue infection because they are displaced and staying in make-shift shelters.