Rescuers in Nepal are battling against torrential rains to pull out bodies from the wreckage of homes buried by a landslide that caused 22 deaths and injured 10 people.

The latest calamity occurred in Achham district, about 450 km west of the capital city of Kathmandu.

Flash floods and landslides are a common occurrence in the mountainous terrain of the Himalayan nation especially during the annual monsoon rains between June and September.

At least 70 people have been killed and 13 went missing across the country in flash floods and landslides this year, according to official data on Sunday.

Volunteers, police and military rescuers were looking for people missing in Achham.

In the neighbouring Kailali district, authorities recovered a body of a fisherman who had been swept away in the overflowing Geta river.

Yagya Raj Joshi, an official in Kailali, said about 1500 people displaced because of the floods were sheltered in public buildings.

Local media broadcasted images of swathes of farms inundated by floodwaters, a destroyed suspension bridge and villagers wading through chest deep water.

By Gopal Sharma in Kathmandu

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