The number of people displaced from southeastern Nepal's Saptari district is rising due to poor security and increasing activities like killing, abduction and extortion of the armed groups, local newspaper The Rising Nepal reported on Saturday.
During the last one month alone, at least 10 businessmen and legal practitioners have been displaced from the district.
Legal practitioner Abinas Kumar Pyakurel of Chhinnamasta village has been living in Nepali capital Kathmandu now after he was abducted some 20 days ago and freed after paying a ransom of 700,000 Nepali rupees (around 10,000 U.S. dollars) 10 days ago.
Likewise, eight other legal practitioners have already left the district and many more are thinking of quitting the district, according to the report.
Besides legal practitioners, traders have also been displaced. Seven traders in the district have already been displaced.
Around 10 Village Development Committees (VDCs) were in full or partial inundation in Sunsari and Saptari districts, some 220 km southeast of the capital Kathmandu, after the embankment of the Saptakoshi River suddenly broke down on Aug. 18. Around 50,000 locals have been displaced by the flood.
Source: Xinhua
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