Locals Collect Wood Amidst Rising Kaligandaki River

Parbat. Due to heavy rainfall for the past three days, the water level in the Kaligandaki river has risen high. Local residents of the Majhi settlement in Malunga, Parbat, are risking their lives to collect stones, logs, and firewood washed away by the surging Kaligandaki.Since Saturday morning, locals have gathered on the riverbank to collect firewood washed away by the flood. Police are urging them to move to safer locations by blowing whistles while they collect logs using sticks with hooks.Ignoring the police warnings and requests, they are busy collecting firewood in their own way.Even with the increasing risk of the...