Koshi displaced end agitation

SUNSARI, Oct 7 - Following an agreement between the local administration and Saptakoshi-displaced people, vehicular movement along the East-West Highway resumed today.

days alleging that they were

not getting sufficient relief materials. They had also briefly seized a few journalists and security personnel during the agitation.

According to the police, they signed ...

...deal with the local administration to properly maintain records of the displaced and removing names of those who had registered their names although they were not really displaced.

Chief District Officer Durga Bhandari said that they had no plans to provide monetary assistance for Dashain festival. He also added that they would begin registering the names of those yet-to-be enlisted persons in the displaced people's list after Dashain.

1 dies of diarrhoea

One Halai Sada, 60, a resident of Sripur VDC ward-7, who had been staying in the camp at Singiya died due to diarrhoea today. He breathed his last while receiving treatment in the camp. Health workers said that over a dozen persons among those suffering from diarrhoea are in serious condition. They are also alarmed as the number of patients suffering from pneumonia, jaundice, chest infection, among others, has been surging in the camps lately.

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