SHIMLA: The death toll in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur district, where a private bus was buried under the debris of a massive landslide on Tuesday evening, increased to 16 with the recovery of a child's body on Wednesday morning, officials said.

Search and rescue operations to trace people buried under the debris continued on Wednesday after a huge portion of a mountain gave way and fell on the moving bus in the Bhalughat area near Berthin around 6.40 pm on Tuesday.

"The death toll has increased to 16 with the recovery of one more body today," Bilaspur SP Sandeep Dhawal told PTI.

The rescue operations, which were halted late last night due to poor visibility and mud sliding, resumed on Wednesday morning with two teams from the NDRF, locals, police, home guards, and firemen engaged in th

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