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    Floods kill 175 across South Asia

    China Daily | Updated: 2017-08-15 09:23

    Elephants help rescue hundreds from flooded Nepalese safari park

    KATHMANDU - Monsoon floods and landslides have killed at least 175 people across Nepal, India and Bangladesh, officials said on Monday. But they fear that figure could rise sharply as rescuers search for dozens believed lost under mud and in submerged villages.

    Three days of relentless downpours sparked flash floods and landslides that have killed at least 80 people in Nepal, 73 across northern and eastern India and 22 in Bangladesh.

    In Nepal, police said over 48,000 homes have been totally submerged by the floods.

    In neighboring India, a massive landslide in the mountainous north swept two passenger buses off a hillside and into a deep gorge, killing at more than 40 people.

    The coaches had stopped for a tea break around midnight on Saturday in Himachal Pradesh when tons of rock and mud cascaded down a mountainside.

    Soldiers had managed to pull out 46 bodies from the buses that were covered with rocks and mud.

    But more were still missing somewhere at the bottom of the ravine, with soldiers and rescuers working into the night to reach those beneath the mud and rock.

    "Around 200 meters of national highway washed away with two buses and more than 50 feared buried," said Indian army spokesman Colonel Aman Anand, who was helping coordinate rescue efforts.

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his condolences and prayers for those affected by the accident.

    "Pained by the loss of lives due to landslide-related accidents in HP's Mandi district," he posted on Twitter, using the acronym for Himachal Pradesh state.

    The disaster followed days of heavy rain, which loosens the soil on steep hillsides and threatens villages at the foot of mountains every monsoon season.

    Hundreds have died across India in torrential rain, floods and landslides since the onset of the wet season in April.

    In Nepal the toll from this year's monsoon - which typically lasts from late June until the end of August - has already eclipsed last year, with more than 100 people confirmed dead.

    Last weekend in the central lowlands, four girls from the same family drowned when they fell into a flooded roadside ditch.

    Heavy toll

    Nepal's weather department warned that heavy rain was expected to continue for another day, following days of torrential downpours.

    "There isn't a house without water," said Raghu Ram Mehta, a resident of the southern district of Sunsari which has suffered nine deaths, the highest of any district.

    "Hundreds of families are taking shelter in local schools."

    Footage aired on Nepali TV showed villagers wading through waist-high water with their belongings and using boats to reach higher ground.

    Families perched on trees with young children overnight as floodwaters swept away homes in a village in the southern district of Chitwan, local media reported. In the popular jungle safari resort of Sauraha in Chitwan, hotels were forced to shift their guests to higher floors as water rushed in.

    Officials said they used elephants to rescue about 300 tourists to the nearest open highway and airport to help them return to the capital Kathmandu.

    Biratnagar airport in the eastern district of Morang was closed after being submerged in a meter of water, according to authorities at the international terminal.

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