Landslides, rain kill at least 24 people in Nepal
Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have left at least 24 people dead and more than a dozen others missing in quake-hit Nepal.
Rescuers are searching through rubble for around 20 more people believed missing in the western part of the country.
Homes and other local buildings were swept away in three districts, authorities said.
“The search and rescue operation is continuing,” police chief Kedar Rajaure told reporters on the ground in the Kaski area in the foothills of the Himalayas on Thursday.
Eighteen people injured in the disaster have been taken to local hospitals for treatment, he told AFP.
Scores of people die every year in flooding and landslides during the monsoon season in the Himalayan Asian country.
Last month, 35 people died when a landslide crushed villages in northeastern Nepal.
The monsoon rains are also hampering the delivery of relief supplies to mountainous villages devastated by a massive earthquake that struck the country on April 25. More than 8,800 people were killed by the quake and a large aftershock that followed shortly afterwards.
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