Landslides and floods triggered by heavy downpours in Nepal and neighbouring India have killed more than 60 people, officials said on Sunday, as rescuers raced to reach cut-off communities in remote mountainous terrain.
Torrential downpours have lashed Nepal since Friday, triggering river surges and inundating many areas in the Himalayan nation.
At least 44 people have died in rain-triggered disasters and five are missing, Shanti Mahat, spokeswoman for Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, told Agence France-Presse.
At least 37 were killed by landslides in the worst-affected eastern district of Ilam.
“Heavy rains overnight caused the landslides,” said local district official Sunita Nepal.
“Rescue workers have reached the affected areas. It was difficult because many roads were blocked.”
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