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    The Record, October 21, 2021, Kathmandu

    When it rains, it pours

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    More than 70 lives have already been lost to this past week’s rains with the toll only expected to rise. 

    
            A bus accident in Inaruwa due to heavy flooding.
    A bus accident in Inaruwa due to heavy flooding. (All photos: RSS)



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