NEOC chief Jhankanath Dhakal told AFP that the bodies they found recently brings the death toll to 101. Torrential rain hit the area last week and eventually stopped on Sunday, but it caused flooding and landslides that damaged villages and public roads near the Nepal-India border.

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Based on government reports, a total of 126 people are still missing. Rescuers in retrieval operations are already using land routes to locate people after water from the three-day heavy rainfall receded.

When the weather cleared on Sunday, the Nepalese government deployed 3,400 workers and four helicopters to rescue hundreds of stranded people and deliver emergency food supplies and first aid medicines to devastated areas.

Survivors were transferred to temporary shelters. Affected families were also given clean water to avoid the feared cholera outbreak.

Dhakal expressed his concern about the spread of water-borne diseases such as cholera. He added that they already deployed health workers to distribute medicines and water purification tablets to the survivors.

The NEOC chief also said officials in worst-affected districts of Surkhet, Bardiva and Dang provided clean water kits to villages to prevent a cholera outbreak.

Cholera, an infection of the small intestines, is a common disease in flood-stricken areas. It is characterized by diarrhea and vomiting and may be spread through intake of food and water with contaminated human feces.

Nepalese officials said the rescue operations will continue to locate the missing 126.

Meanwhile in neighboring India's Uttakarakhand, 24 people have been killed since Friday after heavy rains. Last year, more than 5,000 people were also killed in the same area for the same calamities.

In South Asia, flooding and landslides claim hundreds of life during the monsoon season.