Gorkha, Oct. 15 -- Floods in the Budhigandaki river last Sunday swept away more than 1,200 farm animals and poultry, including 81 pigs, 175 goats, 919 chickens, 43 ducks and five buffaloes, according to the Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Services Centre in Gorkha.

The floods inundated sheds and livestock enclosures in settlements along the river in Chumnubri, Dharche and Arughat, killing or carrying away animals and birds. The disaster also destroyed 34 livestock sheds and 12 pig pens, said Prakash Adhikari, chief of the centre.

A buffalo swept away from Shantibazar in Arughat Rural Municipality-5 was rescued on October 13 in the Kumaltar area of Jwalamukhi Rural Municipality-5, about 30 kilometres downstream in neighbouring Dhading ...