Nepal recovers first body from buses swept away by landslide


Members of Nepal's Armed Police Force (APF) search for survivors in the Trishuli River at the site of a landslide following heavy rainfall in Simaltar on July 13, 2024. Nepali rescue teams resumed their search early on July 13 for at least 63 people missing after monsoon rains triggered a landslide that swept two buses off a highway and into a river. - AFP

BHARATPUR, Nepal (AFP): Nepali rescue teams on Saturday recovered the first body from around 50 people missing after monsoon rains triggered a landslide that swept two buses off a highway and into a river.

The force of Friday's landslide in central Chitwan district pushed the vehicles over concrete crash barriers and down a steep embankment, at least 30 metres (100 feet) from the road.

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