KATHMANDU, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun food distributions to flood victims in Terai region of Nepal.
Issuing a statement on Friday, the WFP Nepal office informed that food distributions are going on as the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology has warned of more floods in coming days in the low lying areas of the country.
The floods triggered by incessant rainfall since the second week of August took the lives of more than 120 people in Terai districts while displaced thousands of people. As per the government statistics, the tragedy has affected 1.7 million people, with nearly 461,000 of them displaced from their homes and in desperate need of assistance.
According to the statement, almost half a million people in impacted areas are currently food insecure, and 300,000 people have very little access to food and are urgently in need of food assistance.
WFP said it would work along with the government of Nepal and its partners to provide 200 metric tons of fortified food to 19,500 pregnant women and nursing mothers and about 27,700 children aged between six and 23 months, across 13 flood affected districts of Terai region.
