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More than 5,000 forest fires in ten months

Kathmandu, May 18: A total of 5,130 incidents of wild fire have taken place in a period of about ten months. The first month in the Lunar calendar i.e. Baisakh alone saw the occurrence of 3,270 fire incidents, according to statistics of the Department of Forest and Land Conservation. There

Fire incidents cause 26 deaths in a month

Twenty-six deaths were reported from across the country due to incidents of fire in the month of Baisakh (mid April-mid

Forest fire destroys 4,500 hectares of forest area in Ramechhap

Forest fires broke out in 155 places of eight municipalities and rural municipalities in the district have destroyed almost 4,500

Five thousand hectares of forest under fire in Banke

According to the District Forest Office, Banke, a total of 76 community forests and one Chakla Forest have been affected

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Five people arrested for igniting forest fire in Kavre

Property worth Rs 2.6 million was gutted when 15 houses of Sanopota village in Roshi rural municipality-4 were burnt in

Elderly couple died in a fire in Dhading

An elderly couple died when a house caught fire in Ghatekhola in Purandanda, Thackre Rural Municipality-5 of Dhading district.

Forest fires raging across Nepal, with 165 incidents reported

The situation of forest fires in the country is getting worse by the day. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and

Godawari municipality to provide Rs 500,000 to wildfire victim families

Godawari municipality is to provide Rs 500,000 as financial assistance to each family of those killed in course of trying

Another injured also die in Lalitpur forest fire

Another person also breathed his last in an attempt to douse a fire broke out at Tapeshwor Community Forest in

One hurt while dousing fire in Lele forest dies

A person succumbed to the fire burn injuries that he sustained while extinguishing a forest fire in Tapeshwor community forest