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Al Jazeera
Environment
Sarah Shamim

More than 200 killed: What caused the devastating floods in Nepal?

A man wades through floodwaters in an area affected by monsoon flooding in Roshi village of Nepal's Kavre district on September 30, 2024. [Prabin Ranabhat/AFP]

Nepalese capital Kathmandu was inundated by floodwaters last week after record-breaking rains caused the Bagmati river to breach its banks.

More than 200 people have been killed and thousands of houses damaged in the worst flooding and landslides in the Kathmandu valley in years.

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