Flooding triggers a landslide in Nepal - in pictures

  • Nepal's Armed Police Force uses a zipline to rescue stranded residents from a flooded river in Lalitpur. Getty images
    Nepal's Armed Police Force uses a zipline to rescue stranded residents from a flooded river in Lalitpur. Getty images
  • Streets in Kathmandu are slick with mud as floodwater recedes from a neighbourhood that was inundated by the overflowing Bagmati River following heavy rains. Reuters
    Streets in Kathmandu are slick with mud as floodwater recedes from a neighbourhood that was inundated by the overflowing Bagmati River following heavy rains. Reuters
  • A rescue team conducts a search after passenger buses were buried in a landslide at Jhyaple Khola in the Dhading District of Nepal. EPA
    A rescue team conducts a search after passenger buses were buried in a landslide at Jhyaple Khola in the Dhading District of Nepal. EPA
  • Grief at Jhyaple Khola in the Dhading District of Nepal as relatives and neighbours gather to identify the bodies of passengers after buses were buried in a landslide. EPA
    Grief at Jhyaple Khola in the Dhading District of Nepal as relatives and neighbours gather to identify the bodies of passengers after buses were buried in a landslide. EPA
  • Grief at Jhyaple Khola in the Dhading District of Nepal as relatives and neighbours gather to identify the bodies of victims after passenger buses were buried in a landslide. EPA
    Grief at Jhyaple Khola in the Dhading District of Nepal as relatives and neighbours gather to identify the bodies of victims after passenger buses were buried in a landslide. EPA
  • Relatives and neighbours visit the site at at Jhyaple Khola in Dhading District, where bus travellers died in a landslide. EPA
    Relatives and neighbours visit the site at at Jhyaple Khola in Dhading District, where bus travellers died in a landslide. EPA
  • Visitors cross the landslide site after passenger buses were buried in a landslide at Jhyaple Khola in Nepal. EPA
    Visitors cross the landslide site after passenger buses were buried in a landslide at Jhyaple Khola in Nepal. EPA