The death toll from monsoon-induced floods and landslides in Nepal has passed 200, according to reports on Monday. More than two dozen people were missing on Monday afternoon, according to The Kathmandu Post newspaper,

Rescuers in Nepal have recovered dozens of bodies from buses and other vehicles that were buried in landslides near the capital Kathmandu as the death toll from flooding rose to at least 148 with dozens missing.

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.