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Monsoon rains kill 30 people in Nepal, others missing

Members of Nepalese army on a boat head to rescue residents at a flooded colony in Kathmandu, Nepal. [Reuters]

Flash floods and landslides in Nepal triggered by monsoon rains killed 15 people and injured 12 overnight while another 18 have gone missing, officials said on Saturday.

The latest deaths took to 30 the number of people killed in incessant rain that since Thursday has pounded much of the Himalayan nation tucked between China and India.

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