(UPDATE) KATHMANDU — More than 60 people were reported missing in Nepal after a landslide triggered by heavy rains swept two buses off a highway and into a river, authorities said.

Dozens of search and rescue personnel were combing the site for survivors of the accident in the central district of Chitwan, district official Khimananda Bhusal told AFP.

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