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Nepal Searches For 63 People Missing After Massive Highway Landslide

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Nepali rescue teams resumed their search early Saturday for at least 63 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.

Dozens of rescuers spent hours struggling to comb the raging Trishuli River, an effort hampered by muddy waters and fierce currents before sunset forced them to call off the search. One bus was heading from the capital to Gaur in Rautahat district in southern Nepal, and the other was en route to Kathmandu from southern Birgunj.

The rainfall is hard to forecast and varies considerably, but scientists say climate change is making the monsoon stronger and more erratic. Floods, landslides and lightning strikes have killed 88 people across the country since the monsoon began in June, according to police figures.

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