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Ranimahal: At least five persons died in floods and landslides in Ranimahal on Tuesday following torrential rainfall.

Most Beautiful place Rani Mahal is a Rana palace located in the banks of Kali Gandaki River in Palpa district of Nepal. This palace was constructed by General Khadga Shumsher JBR in 1893.
In 1887 General Khadga Samsher Rana was forced to drop his royal titles and was sent to Palpa-Gauda as the Western Commander in Chief of Nepal. At Palpa-Gauda in 1892 Khadga Shumsher’s beloved youngest wife Tej Kumari Devi died and within a year Khadga built a palace and named after his wife as Rani Mahal (Literary translates as Queens Palace). He also named the nearby forest as Rani Ban (Rani forest) along with naming the Ghats as Rani Ghat. [1] In 1902, Khadga Samsher Rana along with his family fled from Nepal to India abandoning Rani Mahal which resulted in negligence of Rani mahal and eventually this palace structure started crumbling.

Floods in the Jhimruk River deposited two bodies near an under construction building in Bijubar, and one near Bagdula Bridge, according to police. Likewise, locals said they saw two bodies floating in the Jhimruk River dam at Ramdi.

DHANKUTA, July 28: At least 13 persons, including former Minister of State for Finance Hari Raj Khewa, were killed and 28 others sustained injuries when a passenger bus (Ba 2 Kha 7366) skidded off the road and plunged some 80 meters from the road near Sindhuwa Bazaar of Dhankuta district on Thursday.
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The bus, en route to Dharan from Sankhuwasabha, had 41 passengers on board. Brake failure and poor visibility due to fog have been blamed for the accident.

Twenty-seven injured are undergoing treatment at Dharan-based BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), while one victim is receiving treatment at Dhankuta District Hospital, according to Surendra Khadka, chief of District Traffic Police Office, Dharan.

Seven among the deceased died on the spot while the remaining six breathed their last while undergoing treatment at BPKIHS, according to police.

Those who died on the spot include former state minister Khewa of Hatikharka VDC-6 of Dhankuta, Aatimaya Tamang, Khin Maya Bhattarai, Tara Devi Basnet, Tara's three-year-old daughter Reshma, all of whom are from Parewa VDC-7, and businessman Bedprakash Agrawal of Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City ward number 2.

Other victims - Homa Paudel of Phulek-6, Tehrathum, Tej Bahadur Thapa of Leguwa, Dhankuta, Bir Bahadur Kafle of Marekatahare, Dhankuta, Tanka Katuwal of Madi Municipality, Sankhuwasabha, and Sonam Tamang of Budimorang-8, Dhankuta. Identities of two other victims have not been ascertained yet, informed police constable Dhan Bahadur Basnet.

Security personnel and locals had jointly carried out rescue work following the accident.

A humble politician

Locals here are in profound grief following the untimely death of Hari Raj Khewa, a noted politician and former minister of state for finance. His bus met with an accident at Sindhuwa Bazaar while he was returning home after visiting relatives at Marekatahare VDC, Dhankuta.

Known as a very humble leader in the eastern region, people remember him for his modesty and politeness. He was district president of the CPN (Maoist Center), Dhankuta. He maintained a clean image even after becoming a government minister.

Beside politics, he was also involved in literature. He had won the first prize for drama in a Radio Nepal contest and performed a dozen drama roles there. He earned his Bachelor's Degree from Dhankuta Multiple Campus. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

Dev Narayan Yadav of Tilathi-4 and Roshan Jha of Tilathi-6 were injured after receiving stones hurled by the Indians.

Among the injured, the condition of Yadav is said to be serious. It is learnt that Indian locals targeted Yadav as he had been protesting the dam constructed illegally by the Southern neighbor.

The clash was ensued after local youths demolished a dam that was being constructed by India at the no-man’s land breaching international norms. Nepali youths damaged some 80 percent of the dam constructed by India.

Security personnel from both the countries are attempting to contain the clash.

With the dam construction underway, nearly half a dozen VDCs are on the verge of inundation. VDCs including Tilathi, Sakarpura, Rampura, Malhaniya were inundated after the swollen Khando rivulet entered into the southern part of the district. The rivulet also damaged the controversial Indian dam constructed near the no-man’s land.

Even though the Indian side started constructing the dam since Saturday, the work had been halted following the objection of the Saptari district administration.

Since 1971, Indian side has been constructing infrastructures including the dam, blocking the natural course of the Khando rivulet in the no-man’s land.