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Two persons were found dead in Kaligandaki river in Palpa.

The District Police Office, Palpa informed that two men were found dead in Kaligandaki river in Baganaskali Rural Municipality-2.

DSP Sunil Malla said that Bhojraj Aslami Magar (26) of Golachaur Rural Municipality-6, Sindhuli and Tej Bahadur Raskoti (45) of Tulsipur Sub-Metropolitan City-3, Dang were found dead in the Kaligandaki river.

Both of the deceased were the laborers working on the Kaligandaki Corridor Project.

The body of Aslami has been sent to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and the body of Raskoti to the District Hospital for postmortem, Palpa police informed.

At least 34 people have died in the US - including 12 in Missouri alone - after deadly tornadoes tore through several south-eastern states, flipping cars and flattening homes, BBC reported.

In Kansas, at least eight people died after more than 55 vehicles were involved in a crash due to a dust storm.

More than 250,000 properties were without power across seven states - including Michigan, Missouri and Illinois - overnight into Sunday, according to tracker PowerOutage.

Further severe weather is expected for the region, with tornado watches issued across eastern Louisiana, western Georgia, central Tennessee and the western Florida Panhandle.

Six deaths were reported in Mississippi by the Governor Tate Reeves, as several tornadoes spread across the state.

Flash flooding and flood warnings have also been issued in central Mississippi, eastern Louisiana and western Tennessee; as well as parts of Alabama and Arkansas, as severe weather continues to track across the south-east.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has said these flash floods could prove deadly.

Multiple tornado warnings were also issued across Alabama on Saturday night.

The NWS warned of "multiple intense to violent long-track tornadoes" in those areas, describing the situation as "particularly dangerous".

The meteorological agency said: "If you live in these areas, get to the sturdiest structure you have access to and remain in place until the storms pass."

Gusts of up to 60mph (97km/h) have been recorded in Shelby, Tennessee, according to NWS data.

Mike Kehoe, governor of Missouri, said the state had been "devastated by severe storms and tornadoes, leaving homes destroyed and lives lost".

Missouri's emergency management agency said initial reports indicated 19 tornadoes had struck 25 counties so far, according to BBC.

A home belonging to one of the 12 people killed in Missouri was torn apart by a tornado.

"It was unrecognisable as a home. Just a debris field," Coroner Jim Akers of Butler County told CBS News, as rescuers attended the scene.

"The floor was upside down. We were walking on walls."

Alicia Wilson, who was evacuated from her home in Missouri, told TV station KSDK: "It was the scariest thing I've ever been through; it was so fast, our ears were all about to burst."

Arkansas has seen three deaths and 29 injuries - prompting Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders to declare a state of emergency.

Georgia's governor, Brian Kemp, also declared a state of emergency, while Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt confirmed one person had been killed in the state.

A dust storm that caused three deaths in Texas on Friday night caused a pile-up of an estimated 38 cars.

"It's the worst I've ever seen," Sgt Cindy Barkley, of the state's department of public safety, told reporters.

"We couldn't tell that they were all together until the dust kind of settled."

A further death has since been reported in Texas.

The destructive storms fuelled more than 100 wildfires in several central states and overturned multiple semi-trailer trucks, CBS reports.

In Oklahoma, one of those fires, known as the 840 Road Fire, has already burned 27,500 acres and remains 0% contained, according to the Oklahoma Forestry Service. The agency has issued a "red flag" warning for the state's panhandle area, signalling a severe fire danger.

Property worth around Rs 1.5 million was reduced to ashes when a fire broke at a house with tin roof of local Krishna Hari Shrestha in Kathmandu on Saturday.

The fire, which broke out at 9: 40 pm and continued for an hour, destroyed the  one-story house of Shrestha at Syuchatar in Nagarjun Municipality-7, according to Apil Bohara, spokesperson at the District Police Range, Kathmandu.

The fire engines could not reach the house to put off the flame due to the narrow street.

However, the security personnel and locals jointly extinguished the fire with the help of two small-size fire engines. Although four other fire engines had reached around the incident site, they could not access the right place owing to a narrow street.

A police team led by chief of Kalimati Police Circle, Rupak Khadka, was mobilized to douse the fire. Even the police personnel from Swayambhu assisted the rescue team.

All household items including clothes, food grains, furniture and utensils were destroyed in the blaze.

Police have suspected that the incident might have occurred due to power leakage.

Viral infection has gripped Solukhumbu district.

Number of patients suffering from viral fever, common cold and cough, asthma, pneumonia, headache, respiratory problems and diarrhea has been increasing at different places in the district since last week.

According to the District Health Office, the number of patients visiting Phaplu Hospital has increased all of sudden, creating problems in service delivery of the hospital.

More than a dozen patients suffering from viral infection visit Phaplu Hospital for treatment daily.

The 15-bed hospital has now been providing treatment admitting more than 50 patients, according to the hospital administration.

Officiating Chief of the hospital, Sani Sherpa, said they have been facing problems in managing human resources to attend to the patients following the increasing number of patients at the hospital.

Of the patients admitted in the hospital, most of them are patients of viral infection.

"We lack adequate human resources but the patient inflow is high. We have now been mobilizing all available means and resources," Sherpa mentioned.

Most of the patients visiting the hospital are in critical health condition and they have to be put under oxygen.

"All beds in the hospitals are packed. We have been providing treatment keeping the viral patients even in beds in the maternity room. A situation might occur wherein patients will have to be treated keeping them on the floor if the number of patients surges like this," shared the hospital's Dr Ram Babu Joshi.