rescue works

Tourism Department has continued search and rescue works for those gone missing after an avalanche in the course of climbing the Sagarmatha.

Home Minister Balkrishna Khand has directed the administration to use helicopters for speeding up rescue works in the floods and inundations caused by incessant rains in various parts of the Dang district.

As many as 14 people died when a passenger-ferrying bus en route to Damak.