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BHUBANESWAR, India\/KATHMANDU: Heavy rain and storms have triggered floods and landslides across parts of India and neighbouring Nepal, killing at least 19 people \u200band leaving 10 workers missing as rivers rose above danger levels, authorities said.<\/strong><\/p>\n In \u200cIndia\u2019s Uttar Pradesh state, 15 people were killed and five injured over the past 48 hours, while 117 houses were damaged, state authorities said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n Heavy rain and storms affected 63 districts, \u200bwith the state recording 19 times its normal rainfall in the 24 hours to \u200bSaturday.<\/p>\n In Nepal, four people, including three children and a woman, were killed \u2060after a landslide buried their house while they were sleeping in Nishi Khola village in \u200bBaglung district, Krishna Prasad Acharya, the district\u2019s senior-most bureaucrat, said.<\/p>\n Ten Nepali workers were also missing \u200bafter an avalanche buried the base camp of the 7,126-metre (23,379-ft) Himlung Himal in the northern Manang district, hiking officials said.<\/p>\n The workers had been setting up tents for foreign climbers, who were not present when the \u200bavalanche struck.<\/p>\n Nepali authorities warned of possible flash floods in 49 of the country\u2019s 77 districts, \u200bwith more than half facing high flood or flash-flood risks as water levels in major rivers and \u200ctributaries continued \u2060to rise.<\/p>\n Shanti Mahat, a spokesperson for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, said Rasuwa and Nuwakot, areas hit by last month\u2019s deadly floods that killed more than 1,450 people and left thousands still missing, should remain \u201calert\u201d but were not currently considered high-risk areas.<\/p>\n Flooding in the \u200bRahuganga River damaged the \u200bstructure and transmission-line \u2060towers of a 40-megawatt hydropower project, Water Resources and Energy Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha said.<\/p>\n \u201cA technical team had been mobilised to assess the \u200bdamage and restore the project,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In India, the Central Water Commission \u200bsaid 30 \u2060river-monitoring stations across seven states were in a \u201csevere situation\u201d, with water levels between designated danger marks and previous highest flood levels.<\/p>\n Several major rivers, including the Ganga, Gandak, Kosi, Bagmati and Narmada, were \u2060above danger \u200blevels at monitoring stations.<\/p>\n Floods and landslides also disrupted telecommunications \u200bin parts of Nepal after damage to optical fibres and power supplies, Communications Minister Bikram Timilsinha said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n