India/Nepal: Floods and Landslides - Jun 2013

Early monsoon rains have caused massive flooding and landslides in northern India's Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh states and Nepal since mid-June 2013, affecting tens of thousands of people. In India, more than 1,056 people are reported to have lost their life and hundreds were still missing as of 24 Jun (UN Country Team, 24 Jun 2013). In Nepal, floods and landslides have been reported in 29 out of 75 districts, with 59 people dead and over 12,000 people displaced as of 18 Jul (IFRC, 19 Jul 2013).