No fewer than 39 people were killed in Nepal in landslides and flooding caused by heavy rain, authorities said on Wednesday.
The district authorities said that the heaviest casualties occurred in the Pyuthan district in central Nepal, where 15 bodies were recovered from areas affected by landslides.
In the Palpa district three members of the same family were killed by a landslide and in the Jhapa district in eastern Nepal, five people were killed when they drowned in a flooded river
The most recent death was that of an infant who was buried by a landslide in the Myagdi district on Tuesday.
The Nepalese Home Ministry has said the death toll will rise.
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