Additional forces, including the military and police, have been sent to the area to aid rescuers whose efforts are being impacted by continuous rainfall.
Dozens of people are missing after two buses were swept into a swollen river in Nepal by a landslide amid torrential monsoon rain. The buses were swept off a road and into the Trishuli River near Simaltal, about 74 miles west of the capital Kathmandu, at around 3am.
'There were 41 people in the bus travelling from Kathmandu to Gaur, and 24 people in the bus travelling from Birgunj to Kathmandu,' said police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki. More could have boarded the buses on their routes, officials said.
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