Death toll reaches nearly 200 and dozens missing after days of heavy rainfall - Rescue personnel have stepped up recovery work with rain easing in the Himalayan nation

The death toll from monsoon-induced floods and landslides in Nepal has risen to 193, with at least 31 people still missing and many others injured, police said on Monday. The heavy rain, described by local media as the worst in decades,

Residents of Nepal's flood-hit capital returned to their mud-caked homes on Sunday to survey the wreckage of devastating floods that have killed at least 170 people across the Himalayan republic.