Kathmandu (AFP) - Emergency workers on Friday recovered seven more bodies from the debris of multiple landslides triggered by heavy rains in Nepal, taking the confirmed death toll to 36.
Police said rescuers were still searching for six people believed missing after Thursday's landslides, which crushed villages in the western district of Kaski in the foothills of the Himalayas, around 150 kilometres (90 miles) west of Kathmandu.
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