Kathmandu, June 25: A total of 39 persons have been killed so far due to floods and landslides caused by incessant rains this year.

Delivering a statement of public importance at the House of Representatives today, Home Minister Govinda Raj Joshi informed that about 22 persons were injured by the floods, two were missing, about 621 families affected and 380 sheds and houses destroyed.

The total damage caused by floods and landslides amounts to about Rs. 20 million, he added.

Mr Joshi said of the 31 districts affected by incessant rains this year, the districts in western, mid-western and far-western regions have been affected the most.

The Home Minister made it clear that the district natural calamity relief committees have been providing necessary fund and relief materials to the families affected by flood and landslides in the districts.

The district administration, Nepal Police, Royal Nepalese Army, Red Cross Society and different social organisations are working in the flood affected districts, he said, adding that directives have been issued to the local administration to make the rescue works effective.

A total of Rs. 4.2 million has also been released to the district natural calamity relief committees, he added.

Mr Joshi informed that five members of a single family at Tanahu Kamin VDC Ward No 6 have been killed in landslide triggered by incessant rain on June 23 and two others were injured. In addition, two persons of the same VDC Ward No 7 have also died, three persons of Mirlung VDC Ward No 4 and one person each of the Risti VDC Ward Nos. 1 and 2 of the same district died in flood and landslide.

He said that on the same day, four persons were killed when a house collapsed at Lamjung Jita VDC Ward No. 9 while three others sustained injuries. One person at Ramgha VDC Ward No 6 of the same district was killed in a landslide, he added.

The Home Minister said that hundreds of ropanies of land have been inundated and bridges, embankments, roads and other physical infrastructures damaged as a result of the torrential rain on the same night in Tanahu and Lamjung districts.

Arrangements have been made for the treatment of the injured and rescue teams have been sent with cash and relief materials, he added.