Surkhet, May 22 -- Floods triggered by a severe rainstorm accompanied by hail on Tuesday night in Nepka, ward 5 of Chankheli Rural Municipality in Humla, have swept away the Danfe Basic School along with homes, livestock sheds and farmland.

The flood buried houses and livestock sheds belonging to ward chair Harkadhan Tamang and resident Dhan Singh Tamang, among others, and destroyed crop fields belonging to 67 households.

"All the houses in the village are at risk," ward chair Tamang said. "The flood has devastated the entire village before the rains have even settled in. We do not know what will happen once the monsoon starts."

Last year, on April 17, heavy rainfall triggered flooding in the Shreenagar market in ward 3 of Adanchuli Ru...