Nepal, India put rampaging flood river back on original course

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by Staff Writers
Kathmandu (AFP) Jan 27, 2009
A Himalayan river which broke flood defences last year and displaced millions of people in Nepal and India has been put back on its original course, officials in Nepal said Tuesday.

Indian and Nepali technicians plus hundreds of labourers managed to shift the Saptakoshi river late on Monday, said the head of Nepal's Natural Disaster Relief Department, Pratap Kumar Pathak.

"We do not know the bearing capacity of the dams though. So we are not sure if it will be able to handle the monsoon floods this year," Pathak cautioned.

The floods last August left hundreds of villages under water and millions of people destitute in southern Nepal and the impoverished northern Indian state of Bihar.

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