Gandaki, Sept 9:<\/strong> Authorities have stepped up vigilance in downstream areas after the flow of the Kimrung rivulet in Annapurna Rural Municipality-11 of Kaski suddenly declined, raising concerns that a landslide may have blocked the watercourse upstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The local administration issued a public warning on Tuesday night, urging residents living along the Kimrung and Modi rivers to move to safer locations as a precaution against a possible flash flood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Police Inspector Rajan Kumar Patel of the District Police Office, Parbat, residents of settlements including Dimuwa and Ambot along the Modi River have been moved to safer places following early-warning announcements made through loudspeakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assistant Chief District Officer of Kaski, Chitranga Baral, said authorities increased vigilance in riverbank settlements after receiving information from locals that a landslide may have obstructed the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter receiving information that the river has overflowed, a high alert has been issued and everyone has been asked to remain in a safe place,\u201d Baral said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities have urged residents in downstream areas to remain alert and avoid riverbanks until the situation becomes clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gandaki, Sept 9: Authorities have stepped up vigilance in downstream areas after the flow of the Kimrung rivulet in Annapurna Rural Municipality-11 of Kaski suddenly declined, raising concerns that a landslide may have blocked the watercourse upstream. The local administration issued a public warning on Tuesday night, urging residents living along the Kimrung and Modi …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":342241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-435662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435663,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435662\/revisions\/435663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435662"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=435662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}