Rescuers were struggling to reach villages in southern Nepal cut off by a rainstorm that has killed 28 people and injured hundreds more.

Commuters were killed when high winds flipped cars and blew a bus off a highway, police said, while other deaths were caused by collapsing walls, falling trees and electricity poles.

The rainstorm swept through villages in a farming regions of Bara and Parsa districts in southern Nepal on Sunday night.

Police official Sanu Ram Bhattarai said police officers and soldiers from neighbouring areas had reached the affected districts on Monday and were trying to reach the villages.

Poudel earlier said the number of deaths would likely increase as the storm had hit many villages in the Bara district, about 120km south of the capital, Kathmandu.

Local television showed the injured being brought to a hospital in cars, ambulances and even on motorcycles, but roads in many villages had been blocked by fallen trees and electricity poles.

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BDST: 1058 HRS, APR 1, 2019
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