Floods and landslides kill at least 100 in Nepal

KATHMANDU: Major floods and landslides in Nepal have killed at least 100 people across the Himalayan nation, officials have reported.

Dozens more were still missing on Sunday after two days of intense rainfall, which has inundated the valley around the capital Kathmandu.

People have been left stranded on rooftops with workers carrying out rescuers on rafts.

Thousands of homes near rivers have also been flooded and many highways blocked. Despite rain forecast to continue to Tuesday, there were signs of some easing on Sunday.

So far, more than 3,000 people have been rescued according to a government spokesman. But flash floods, along with landslides, have caused many deaths.

Five people, including a pregnant woman and a four-year-old girl, died when a house collapsed under a landslide in the city Bhaktapur, to the east of Kathmandu, state media reports.

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Two bodies were removed from a bus buried by a landslide in Dhading, west of Kathmandu. Twelve people, including the driver, were said to be onboard. Six football players were also killed by a landslide at a training centre operated by the All Nepal Football Association in Makwanpur, to the south-west of the capital.

Others have been swept up in the floodwaters. In one dramatic scene, four people were washed away by the Nakkhu River in the southern Kathmandu valley.