District administrator Yadunath Poudel told Xinhua that eight people were killed and four others went missing when their houses collapsed in two remote villages of Satyawati rural municipality in Gulmi, some 250 kilometers west of the country’s capital Kathmandu.

Poudel said that two other people were rescued alive during the search operation.

The local administration has deployed teams to conduct rescue operations, he said. Public transportation has been disrupted in the landslides-hit villages since Monday night.

Nepal has witnessed heavy rainfall during the monsoon season this year. According to the country’s Ministry of Home Affairs, at least 95 people were killed and 35 people went missing across Nepal due to monsoon-induced disasters in the past few weeks.

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South Sulawesi Gov. Nurdin Abdullah said in a TV interview that displaced people were still being evacuated.

Ten districts and cities in the province including the capital Makassar have been affected by flooding that began late Tuesday, forcing more than 3,000 to flee their homes.

The operators of the Bili Bili rock-filled embankment dam were forced to release water on Tuesday, which contributed to flooding but avoided a worse disaster, said Adnan Purichta Ichsann, the chief of Gowa district near Makassar, AP reported.

Adbullah told local media that siltation of the dam and deforestation of the upstream watershed had worsened the floods.

Rescuers are still searching for 24 people, according to Syamsibar, head of the provincial disaster agency.

Syamsibar, who goes by a single name, said the amount of rainfall was declining Thursday and the Bili Bili dam’s water level had dropped by about 2 meters (6 ½ feet).

Deadly landslides and floods are a frequent occurrence during seasonal rains in Indonesia, with man-made changes to the environment often worsening the situation.

A landslide in Sukabumi, on the country’s most populous island of Java, earlier this month killed 32 people.

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