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The scale of casualties is rapidly growing. With about 100 bodies recovered in Nepal alone, the death toll in China and Nepal has risen to 472, with more than 1,500 people still missing.

Reporter Kim Young-a has the details.

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People pull and push from the front and back as a survivor struggles to wade out of a sea of mud.

Nearby, a helicopter waits with a rescue basket lowered to transport survivors.

The Nepalese Army announced that it deployed two helicopters to the isolated Trishuli Hydropower Plant site, rescuing some 350 workers and nearby residents who had been trapped in a tunnel.

However, about 100 people remain trapped inside the tunnel.

With some 80 bridges collapsed and roads damaged in various places, there are still a significant number of areas that rescue teams cannot even approach.

[Laila Peters Yahia / UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal]: Access to the site is extremely difficult due to the collapse of the road network. About 40 kilometers of roads have been destroyed.

Nepalese authorities stated that they recovered an additional 100 or so bodies in a single day in and around Bagmati Province.

A significant number of them are Indian tourists and Chinese workers who went missing near the Trishuli River.

Seven bodies swept away by rapid currents were even recovered in India, more than 150 kilometers away.

The death toll in Nepal, which stood at 362 the previous day, has climbed to 469.

Combined with China, the death toll exceeds 472, with more than 1,500 missing.

Endless lines of people are forming at funeral homes and hospitals, desperately trying to check whether their missing family members are dead or alive.

[Chamindi Shrestha / Mother of a Missing Person]: My son is a driver, and I heard he went as far as a place 3 kilometers away from Palpa. I was able to talk to him until 8:30 (on the day of the accident), but I haven't been able to reach him since.

With rain forecasted locally through Sunday and news of feared additional overflows coming in, concerns are rising that rescue operations will become even more difficult.

[Video Editing: Chae Chul-ho]