Nepal storm claims at least 28 lives

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Rescuers were struggling on Monday to reach villages in southern Nepal cut off by a wind - and rainstorm that killed at least 28 people and injured hundreds more.

High winds during Sunday night's storm flipped cars and blew one passenger bus off a highway, causing fatalities. At least 40 people were on the bus. Police said most of the deaths were caused by collapsing walls and falling bricks in homes and toppled trees and electricity poles.

The rainstorm swept through villages in a farming region of Bara and Parsa districts. The government administrator in Bara, Rajesh Poudel, said on Monday morning that 27 were killed there. One person died in neighboring Parsa, administrator Narayan Bhattarai said.