They threw stones at a firetruck attempting to douse the flames, injuring the driver. Angry villagers torched the truck as well as four bulldozers working in the landfill. On March 11, a garbage truck descending into Sisdole, the Kathmandu Valley's only landfill, hit and killed 5-year-old Rijan Shrestha. It's hard to believe Kathmandu could get any worse. It is thrown out of bus windows and off rooftops into neighbors' yards. It's piled high in empty lots, on the roadside and on the edges of the city's sewage-filled rivers. It's stuffed in plastic bags and dropped in drainage ditches. In Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu, garbage is pretty much everywhere. They don't call it Trashmandu for nothing. Even Oscar the Grouch might be put off by the growing heaps of trash in the center of Kathmandu.
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