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Nepal floods: Khalte residents knew the river could take their camp – and then it did

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par Heaven Crawley, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University

Khalte, a settlement close to the bank of the Trishuli River in northern Nepal, was completely destroyed in the flash flooding of late August. Khalte housed around 257 families who had been displaced by a previous disaster, when Nepal was rocked by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in 2015.

I spent time working with families there in September 2019, as part of a research project looking…

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