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Nepal says post-flood reconstruction could total 'billions of dollars'

NEPAL - Nepal's reconstruction bill after devastating floods could run into "billions of dollars", Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal said Saturday,...

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as authorities assess the scale of the destruction. "The reconstruction and rehabilitation would entail perhaps billions of dollars," he told reporters in Kathmandu. "We will do loss and damage research and then we plan, but I am reaching out to our international community for support". Devastating floods in the Nepal-Tibet border region have killed at least 616 people, Nepali police said Saturday, three days after the disaster. Chinese state media had  confirmed seven dead, taking the total killed to at least 623 dead. (Bssnews)