The continuous rain over the week triggered landslides and flash floods causing damages to sixteen houses in Kengkhar, Jurmey and Thanrong in Monggar. Kengkhar and Thanrong are affected the most.
In Kengkhar Gewog, three houses were severely damaged in Yuldari, Nanari and Dungkar Goenpa while five other houses were partially damaged in other villages due to landslides and flash floods.
A house in Panglen chiwog, Basic Health Unit and gewog staff resident in Thangrong Gewog is said to have developed cracks due to landslides. It also affected the drinking water supply in the gewog.
Similarly, in Jurmey Gewog, landslide totally damaged a house and partially damaged three houses in Bilam chiwog.
Damages to crops, gewog centre roads and farm roads have also been reported in those three gewogs. However, no casualties have been reported so far.
