At least 81 killed & 100 Missing in Nepal floods and mudslides

Multiple landslides triggered by monsoon rains have left at least 53 people dead in Nepal and caused a major bridge along a national highway to cave in, officials said on Friday (Aug 15). Heavy rains have swept away homes and damaged roads across the country's hilly western region and along the eastern plains bordering India.About a dozen people are still missing in the incident, Home Ministry spokesperson Shanker Koirala said. He said that so far 20 bodies have been recovered mainly from Chisapani village. Search and rescue operations were going on with the assistance of Nepal Army and Nepal Police personnel.Meanwhile, three persons were killed and eleven others sustained injuries when a compound wall of a government school collapsed in Pantheswara village of Gorkha district on Friday.