At least 70 persons are feared killed or are missing in floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains, the Home Ministry and independent reports said Thursday.

A landslide buried alive 22 persons at Manakamana in Gorkha Thursday and many others are missing as search and rescue teams work to pull out people buried in the landslide debris, the Home Ministry said.

Twenty-persons and missing in floods and landslides at a village in Chitwan. Seven persons were killed in Makwanpur, one in Tanahu and six others in Nawaparasi, independent reports said.

Army and police were plucking out marooned villagers to safe locations in the terai districts the whole day Friday. Rivers washed away parked vehicles along highways. Thousands of bus passengers were stranded because of blocked highways.

Flood waters entered the Royal Chitwan National Park–the home of the endangered tiger and the one-horned rhino. Thousands of homes in the terai district have been flooded..

Rains have damaged water pipes at Balkhu in the capital. Landslides have blocked sections of the Tribhuvan Highway and a section of the Mahendra Highway near Hetauda; landslides have also blocked traffic on the Prithvi Highway, reports said.

Heavy overnight rain washed a section of the Narayanghat-Mugling road. The Janakpur-Jayanagar railway service has been disrupted by heavy rain in Dhanusha district.

Floods, landslides and lightening have killed more than 140 people in over 30 of 75 districts since mid-June. Last official reports said the national disaster has left behind 225 million rupees in damages.