
Rescuers searched for a third day as 26 people remained missing after the collapse of a bridge spanning the Bheri River in western Nepal, police said.
Sixteen bodies have been recovered -- the majority of them of women and children.
"Today we will search for the missing in the river with rafts," police superintendent Bahadur Jang Malla said on Thursday from Surkhet.
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By CNN journalist Manesh Shrestha