Administration issues travel alert in Kathmandu Valley

Kathmandu, July 18: The Kathmandu District Administration Office has urged the people to apply special precautions tonight and tomorrow while travelling in the Kathmandu Valley in view of possible risks of flooding, landslide and inundation as the monsoon has become fully active.

The administration has asked the drivers of public and private vehicles and passengers to remain alert from this evening by considering the weather forecast issued by the Weather Forecasting Division of the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, which predicts a possibility of extremely heavy rainfall at one or two places over the hilly and Terai regions of Koshi, Bagmati, Gandaki, Lumbini and Sudurpashchim provinces.