There were 65 people in vehicles that were pushed off one of the country's main roads by a landslide amid torrential monsoon rain.
The bodies of 14 people have been recovered from a river in Nepal after two buses were swept off a highway by a landslide, officials have said. There were 65 people on the buses, the Chitwan District Administration Office said on Tuesday. Eight of them have been identified and handed over to relatives. Six were Indian nationals, the office said. More than 500 rescue personnel have taken part in the search operation.
Three people survived after being ejected from one of the vehicles. Hundreds of rescuers from the police and army searched the river and downstream areas on Tuesday but have not found any trace of the buses. Nepal's rivers are generally fast-flowing due to the mountainous terrain. At the same time, recent heavy monsoon rains have swollen the waterways and turned them murky brown, making it even harder to see the wreckage.
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