
Rescuers were searching through the night Tuesday for hundreds of people who fell into a river after a footbridge collapsed during a religious festival in Nepal.
"The rescuers have not given up yet. They're still there, and they're still looking for bodies," journalist Manesh Shrestha told CNN from Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.
The suspension bridge in remote Surkhet collapsed with as many as 1,000 Hindu pilgrims on it, police said.
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Journalist Manesh Shrestha in Kathmandu and CNN's Alan Duke contributed to this report.