Fourteen killed in Nepal as monsoon rains cause flooding in South Asia
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Government deploys more than 3,000 security personnel to assist rescue efforts with helicopters and motorboats.
KATHMANDU - Incessant rains in Nepal have unleashed floods and landslides that killed at least 10 people with seven missing during the last 24 hours, while disrupting transport, officials said on Saturday.
KATHMANDU — A helicopter crashed in a forest outside Nepal's capital Kathmandu shortly after takeoff on Wednesday (Aug 7), killing all five people on board, an official said, the latest of more than a dozen air crashes in the mountainous region since 2000.
A helicopter crashed in central Nepal on Wednesday, killing all five people aboard, including the pilot and four Chinese tourists.
A passenger plane crashed on take-off in Kathmandu on Wednesday, with the pilot rescued from the flaming wreckage, but all 18 others aboard killed, police in the Nepali capital said.
Lashing rains in Nepal causing flash floods and landslides had killed at least 14 people across the country, with disaster teams searching for nine missing, police said on Sunday.